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Montagnini,
F. and Finney, C. (eds). 2011. Restoring degraded landscapes with
native species in Latin America. Nova Science Publishers, New York.
244pp.
https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=18432
Many forest restoration programs emphasize the use of native species
because they contribute to the conservation of biodiversity as well as
protection and expansion of genetic diversity of the vegetation used
and of associated fauna. Technical and economic advantages of using
indigenous species include potential sources of propagules and ease of
acclimation to local ecological conditions. Additionally, the species
used to restore degraded areas should have the ability to improve soils
and the microenvironment and provide shelter and food for fauna, in
order to accelerate the process of restoration. Sustainable forestry -
including plantations of native tree species, agroforestry, and
enrichment plantings - can provide a wide range of ecosystem services
such as erosion control, watershed protection, habitat connectivity,
biodiversity, and carbon sequestration, as well as economic benefits
from timber, fuelwood, fruit, and other products.
This book includes 13 chapters on topics ranging from the ecological
considerations essential to the design of sustainable restoration
systems; to schemes to finance restoration including Payments for
Environmental Services; to restoration strategies that promote the
conservation of native species diversity. The book closes with a
chapter that poses the question of what constitutes sustainable forest
management, as it could serve as guideline for legislation. The
chapters range geographically from Hidalgo, Mexico, through Costa Rica
and Panama, and south to Brazil and Argentina, thus encompassing a
variety of ecosystems representative of Latin America.
The book is directed to a broad audience including scholars,
practitioners, and policy-makers. This volume is expected to inspire
and enable new sustainable forest restoration projects in Latin America
and elsewhere, and provide impetus for additional research on these
highly-beneficial systems.
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Montagnini,
F., Francesconi, W. and Rossi, E. (eds.). 2011. Agroforestry as a tool
for landscape restoration. Nova Science Publishers, New York. 201pp.
https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=16423
This book provides an overview of recent efforts to apply agroforestry
technologies to landscape restoration in degraded lands located in
tropical and temperate regions worldwide. The book is directed at a
broad audience including academics, practitioners, and policy makers.
The specific circumstances of ecosystem or landscape degradation, range
from extreme conditions and solutions such as sand embankments and
vegetative barriers in arid regions of Sudan, to degraded agricultural
or pasture lands, implementing successional analog ecosystems in the
Brazilian Amazon, “agrotropic-rainforestry” systems in Cameroon,
traditional shifting agricultural technologies without burning in
Madagascar, agrosilvopastoral systems in Costa Rica, or reforestation
with taungya systems in Venezuela.
Several chapters are dedicated to describing agroforestry systems aimed
at the provision of environmental services. Reforestation and
agroforesty systems to recover watershed function are presented from
projects in the Philippines and Canada. Biodiversity recovery and
conservation is the focus of chapters describing the use of living
fences and shaded coffee in fragmented agricultural landscapes in Costa
Rica, and models to apply systems geared at restoring environmental
services in Brazil. Furthermore, the importance of working with local
people, and providing education and extension services to local
communities was stressed in chapters dealing with Malagasy smallholder
agriculture, and deforestation in the Xingu river basin, Brazil, among
others.
This collection of articles intends to call the attention of
practitioners, academics and policy makers to key issues and approaches
in agroforestry that can be useful to address the complex environmental
and productivity problems of degraded agricultural lands throughout the
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ITTO/IUCN Guidelines
for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity in Tropical
Timber Production Forests. A complete revision
and updating of ITTO's original Biodiversity Guidelines published in
1993, sets out the specific actions that policymakers, forest managers
and other stakeholders should take to improve biodiversity conservation
in tropical production forests. Available for download: http://www.itto.int/ |
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Directrices
OIMT/UICN para la conservación y utilización sostenible de la
biodiversidad en los bosques tropicales productores de madera.
Esta publicación, que constituye una completa revisión y actualización
del texto original de las directrices de la OIMT sobre biodiversidad
publicadas en 1993, define las medidas específicas que los dirigentes
del sector, los responsables del manejo forestal y otros actores
interesados deberían tomar para mejorar la conservación de la
biodiversidad en los bosques tropicales de producción. Descargar: http://www.itto.int/es/
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