Publications
A repository of publications focusing on FLR in the context of Asia and the Pacific.
Actions of Indigenous youth in local food systems during times of adversity
2021
"Inherent cultural attributes of Indigenous youth along with the innovative traits and socio-political activism can contribute to climate change adaptation, resilience, preservation of ecosystems, biodiversity and knowledge preservation. Example: The Chi-Nations Youth Council in Chicago started the process of land restoration using Native medicinal plants. "
THE 4 RETURNS FRAMEWORK FOR LANDSCAPE RESTORATION
2021
The 4 Returns Framework is a practical tested system-change framework that offers a science-based, long-term initiative for restoring healthy landscapes that can be used by stakeholders to undertake a landscape approach. It allows government, business, and communities to co-create and deliver a common vision for a resilient landscape.
Climate Risk Country Profile Afghanistan
2021
Climate Risk Country Profiles present a high-level assessment of physical climate risks for a country, providing insight for decision-makers into the potential for increasing, expanding, and emerging risks across space and time, and for different climate futures. Climate and climate-related information is largely drawn from the Climate Change Knowledge Portal (CCKP), a WBG online platform with available global climate data and analysis based on the latest IPCC reports and datasets.
Assessing and Monitoring Forest Governance: A user's guide to a diagnostic tool
2021
This is a guide to diagnosing strengths and weaknesses in forest governance using a tool (set of indicators and a protocol for scoring the indicators in the form of multiple-choice questions about aspects of forest governance).
Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020 - Main report
2020
The assessment report examines the status of, and trends in the forest resources over the period 1990–2020, drawing on the efforts of hundreds of experts worldwide.
Peatland mapping and monitoring: Recommendations and technical overview
2020
This report can be used to identify mapping and monitoring needs, and define suitable approaches and tools to ultimately reflect peatlands into national land use monitoring systems, such as national forest monitoring systems.
Restoration in Action Against Desertification A manual for large-scale restoration to support rural communities’ resilience in the Great Green Wall Programme
2020
This publication supports processes related to rural communities’ resilience in implementing the land restoration of the Great Green Wall Programme on the ground. It serves a dual purpose of consolidating biophysical operations and socio-economic assessments and is mainly built on five-year interventions and practical experiences gathered through Action Against Desertification.
Policies that support Forest Landscape Restoration: What they look like and how they work.
2020
A successful process to advance forest landscape restoration (FLR) needs to motivate, enable and resource its implementation. This brief offers a preliminary exploratory analysis of some of the range of policies that respond to each of these three requirements.
Guidelines for Forest Landscape Restoration in the Tropics
2020
These guidelines have been compiled by two worldrenowned experts with invaluable inputs from other dedicated forest landscape specialists and institutions around the globe, and they are presented in a comprehensive and easy-to-use form for policymakers, practitioners and other stakeholders.
Sustainability Index for Landscape Restoration
2020
A tool for monitoring the biophysical and socioeconomic impacts of landscape restoration.
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