Regreening the Bare Hills Tropical Forest Restoration in the Asia-Pacific Region /

• Main Author: Lamb, David (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: World Forests, 8
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Ecology.; Applied ecology.; Landscape ecology.; Forestry.; Nature conservation.; Life Sciences.; Applied Ecology.; Nature Conservation.; Landscape Ecology.

In Regreening the Bare Hills: Tropical Forest Restoration in the Asia-Pacific Region, David Lamb explores how reforestation might be carried out both to conserve biological diversity and to improve the livelihoods of the rural poor. While both issues have attracted considerable attention in recent y...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Abbreviations
• 1. Deforestation and its Consequences in the Asia-Pacific region
• 2.Forest and Land Degradation in the Asia-Pacific Region
• 3. Reforestation, Conservation and Livelihoods
• 4. Different Types of Reforestation
• 5. Natural Regeneration and Secondary Forests
• 6. Monocultural Plantations
• 7. Mixed-species Plantings
• 8. Ecological Restoration
• 9. Income for Farmers from Tree-planting
• 10. Assisting Farmers to Undertake Reforestation
• 11. Reforestation at a Landscape Scale
• 12. Developing Institutions to Support Reforestation.-13. Conclusions
• Glossary of terms
• Index.