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Initiatives such as The Global Partnership on Forest and Landscape Restoration (GPFLR) unite governments, organizations, communities, and individuals with a common goal: restoring the world’s degraded and deforested lands.126 million hectares of land has been committed for restoration by governments of 30 countries. The Africa Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100), launched at the Global Landscapes Forum in Paris in December 2015, has a target of restoring 100 million hectares across the continent by 2030.Initiative 20x20, which will also support the Bonn Challenge, aimed to restore 20 million hectares in Latin America and the Caribbean by 2020, and 50 million hectares by 2030.New York Declaration on Forests – often called the “expanded Bonn Challenge” - set a goal of restoring another 200 million hectares by 2020 and additional 200 million hectares by 2030.Progress is measured by the BC barometer, which has so far been applied in 22 countries, already bringing 45 million hectares under restoration.

More than 60 countries or jurisdictions have made pledges to the Bonn Challenge.

The Bonn Challenge seeks to restore 350 million hectares of the world’s deforested lands by 2030.

The UNFCC, CBD, and UNCCD have all identified forest landscape restoration as an important component of reaching their goals.

At the same time, FLR can quickly provide financial reflow, create jobs, and is financially viable in the long run, promoting climate adaptation, food security, and increasing livelihood opportunities.įor all these reasons, forest and landscape restoration has become a priority on the international policy agenda: The goal of restoring 350 million hectares will generate about $170 billion per year in net benefits from watershed protection, improved crop yields and forest products, and could sequester up to 1.7 gigatons of carbon dioxide equivalent annually. Landscape restoration projects that regenerate forests, for example, create another “carbon sink” that contribute to climate change mitigation. Not only does this restore biodiversity and revitalize local communities, it also contributes to climate change mitigation. And they provide livelihoods for hundreds of millions of people.įorest and landscape restoration (FLR) brings barren and degraded areas back to life. They provide clean water, food and materials to build shelter for wildlife and humans alike. I discuss challenges to managing forest landscapes as social-ecological systems that stem from mismatches in the temporal and spatial scales on which ecological and social systems typically function, as well as opportunities for policies, formal organizations, and governance networks.Healthy landscapes support a huge variety of land uses - from agriculture and agroforestry to wildlife reserves and ecological corridors to forests and plantations.

This interdisciplinary framing emphasizes the biogeophysical and socio-cultural influences on landscapes and the need to consider these influences – and the interactions among them – in management. Building on emerging theoretical and empirical literature, I offer a perspective on temperate forest landscapes as social-ecological systems: nested sets of coevolving social and natural subsystems connected through feedbacks, time lags, and cross-scale interactions. Moreover, many definitions do not fully account for the many ways social and ecological conditions and processes interact within landscapes.

However, as there are differing definitions of landscapes, it can be difficult to develop frameworks for management. The landscape has been put forth as an appropriate unit for such holistic approaches to management. For this reason, many ecosystem managers have begun to recognize the need to consider the broader context of decisions, and how outcomes of past, present and future decisions in one location may interact with outcomes of such decisions in other locations nearby. Many of the most pressing threats to forests result from complex interactions between multiple stressors and require management on large spatial and temporal scales.