Land Restoration

<p>Foreword</p> <p>Governing Land Restoration: Four Hypotheses</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>Part 1 Social contexts of land restoration</p> <p>Chapter 1.1 Land Degradation as a Security Threat Amplifier: The New Global Frontline</p> <p>Chapter 1.2 Land Degradation and Its Impact on Security</p> <p>Chapter 1.3 (Em)Powering People: Reconciling Energy Security and Land-Use Management in the Sudano-Sahelian Region</p> <p>Chapter 1.4 Enabling Governance for Sustainable Land Management</p> <p>Part 2 Concepts and Methodologies for restoration and maintenance</p> <p>Chapter 2.1 Tenets of Soil and Landscape Restoration </p> <p>Chapter 2.2 Stabilization of Sand Dunes: Do Ecology and Public Perception Go Hand in Hand?</p> <p>Chapter 2.3 Trust Building and Mobile Pastoralism in Africa</p> <p>Chapter 2.4 Land Degradation from Military Toxins: Public Health Considerations and Possible Solution Paths</p> <p>Chapter 2.5 Flood and Drought Prevention and Disaster Mitigation: Combating Land Degradation with an Integrated Natural Systems Strategy</p> <p>Chapter 2.6 Environmental Security, Land Restoration, and the Military: A Case Study of the Ecological Task Forces in India</p> <p>Chapter 2.7 Releasing the Underground Forest</p> <p>Part 3 Soil, Water, and Energy – The Relationship to Land Restoration</p> <p>Chapter 3.1 Computational Policy Support Systems for Understanding Land Degradation Effects on Water and Food Security for and from Africa</p> <p>Chapter 3.2 The Value of Land Restoration as a Response to Climate Change</p> <p>Part 4 Economics, Policy, and Governance of Land Restoration</p> <p>Chapter 4.1 The Importance of Land Restoration for Achieving a Land Degradation-Neutral World Chapter 4.2 Transforming Land Conflicts into Sustainable Development: A Case of the Taita Taveta of Kenya</p> <p>Chapter 4.3 Case Study: Taranaki Farm Regenerative Agriculture. Pathways to Integrated Ecological Farming</p> <p>Chapter 4.4 Regenerating Agriculture to Sustain Civilization</p> <p>Chapter 4.5 Land Degradation: An Economic Perspective</p> <p>Chapter 4.6 Four Returns, Three Zones, 20 years: A Systemic Approach to Scale Up Landscape Restoration by Business and Investors to Create a Restoration Industry</p> <p>Chapter 4.7 Restoring Degraded Ecosystems by Unlocking Organic Market Potential: Case Study from Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe</p> <p>Chapter 4.8 A Continuing Inquiry into Ecosystem Restoration: Examples from China’s Loess Plateau and Locations Worldwide and Their Emerging Implications</p> <p>Part 5 The Community as a Resource for Land Restoration</p> <p>Chapter 5.1 Poverties and Wealth: Perceptions, Empowerment, and Agency in Sustainable Land Management</p> <p>Chapter 5.2 All Voices Heard: A Conflict Prevention Approach to Land and Natural Resources </p> <p>Part 6 Gender in the Context of Land Restoration</p> <p>Chapter 6.1 Land Restoration, Agriculture, and Climate Change: Enriching Gender Programming Through Strengthening Intersectional Perspectives</p> <p>Chapter 6.2 Gender Roles and Land Use Preferences – Implications to Landscape Restoration in Southeast Asia</p> <p>Part 7 Communities, Restoration, and Resilience</p> <p>Chapter 7.1 Drought-Management Policies and Preparedness Plans: Changing the Paradigm from Crisis to Risk Management</p> <p>Chapter 7.2 Not the Usual Suspects: Environmental Impacts of Migration in Ghana’s Forest-Savanna Transition Zone</p> <p>Chapter 7.3 The Global Restoration Initiative</p> <p>Part 8 Selected Case Studies</p> <p>Chapter 8.1 Indigenuity: Reclaiming Our Relationship with the Land</p> <p>Chapter 8.2 Land Restoration and Community Trust: Keys to Combating Poverty</p> <p>Chapter 8.3 Shifting from Individual to Collective Action: Living Land’s Experience in the Baviaanskloof, South Africa</p> <p>Chapter 8.4 Development and Success, For Whom and Where: The Central Anatolian Case</p> <p>Chapter 8.5 Sharing Knowledge to Spread Sustainable Land Management (SLM)</p> <p>Part 9 Suggestions for Ways to Use this Book</p> <p>Chapter 9.1 Buffets, Cafes, or a Multicourse Meal: On the Many Possible Ways to Use this Book</p> <p>Part 10 Concluding Remarks and a Way Forward</p> <p>Chapter 10.1 Concluding Remarks</p>