Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) Toolbox

Forest Restoration

Welcome to the Forest Restoration Module, which is intended for people involved in forest restoration programmes.

The module provides basic background and more detailed information on forest restoration, as well as links to key tools and case studies of effective forest restoration efforts.

Aguilar-Garavito, M., Barrera, J. & Rondón-Camacho, D. 2008. Experiencias de restauración ecológica en Colombia: entre la sucesión y los disturbios. Bogotá, Colombia, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.

Adam, M.B., Angel, P., Barton, C., Burger, J., Davis, J., French, M., Graves, D., Groninger, J.W., Strahm, B., Sweigard, R., Hall, N., Keiffer, C.H., Larkin, J., McCarthy, B., Miller, C., Mizel, J., Skousen, J., Wood, P. & Zipper, C. 2017. The Forestry Reclamation Approach: Guide to Successful Reforestation of Mined Lands. United States Department of Agriculture (May): 119.

Ager, A.A., Vaillant, N.M. & McMahan, A. 2013. Restoration of fire in managed forests: A model to prioritize landscapes and analyze tradeoffs. Ecosphere, 4(2): 1–19.

Ashton, M.S. & Kelty, M.J. 2018. The practice of silviculture: applied forest ecology. Hoboken, NJ, Wiley.

Brancalion, P.H.S., Viani, R.A.G., Calmon, M., Carrascosa, H. & Rodrigues, R.R. 2013. How to Organize a Large-Scale Ecological Restoration Program? The Framework Developed by the Atlantic Forest Restoration Pact in Brazil. Journal of Sustainable Forestry, 32(7): 728–744.

Bruenig, E.F. & Geldenhuys, C.J. 1996. Conservation and Management of Tropical Rainforests: an Integrated Approach to Sustainability. South African Forestry Journal, 177(1): 61.

Carnus, J.-M., Parrotta, J., Brockerhoff, E., Arbez, M., Jactel, H., Kremer, A., Lamb, D., O’Hara, K. & Walters, B. 2006. Planted forests and biodiversity. Journal of Forestry, 104(2): 65–77.

Ceccon, E. & Martinez-Garza, C. 2016. Experiencias mexicanas en la restauración de los ecosistemas. Ciudad de Mexico, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 580 pp.

Chavez-Tafur, J. & Zagt, R.J. (eds.). 2014. Towards productive landscapes, 56. Tropenbos International, Wageningen, the Netherlands.

Chazdon, R.L. & Guariguata, M.R. 2016. Natural regeneration as a tool for large-scale forest restoration in the tropics: prospects and challenges. Biotropica, 48(6): 716–730.

Chirwa, P.W., Larwanou, M., Syampungani, S. & Babalola, F.D. 2015. Management and restoration practices in degraded landscapes of Eastern Africa and requirements for up-scaling. International Forestry Review, 17(3): 20–30. 

Chirwa, P.W., Larwanou, M., Syampungani, S. & Babalola, F.D. 2015. Management and restoration practices in degraded landscapes of Southern Africa and requirements for up-scaling. International Forestry Review, 17(3): 31–42. 

Dewees, P., Place, F., Scherr, S.J. & Buss, C. 2011. Investing in trees and landscape restoration in Africa: what, where, and how. Program on Forests (PROFOR). Washington, DC, USA. 

Evans, J. (ed.). 2009. Planted forests: uses, impacts, and sustainability. CAB International and FAO. 

Evans, J. and Turnbull, J.W. 2004. Plantation Forestry in the Tropics, 3rd edn. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

FAO. 2003. Bringing back the forests. Policies and practices for degraded lands and forests. RAP Publication

FAO. 2011. Assessing forest degradation. Towards the development of globally applicable guidelines. Forest Resources Assessment Working Paper 177. Rome, Italy.

ITTO. 2020. ITTO guidelines for forest landscape restoration in the tropics. ITTO Policy Development Series No. 23. International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO), Yokohama, Japan. (forthcoming)

IUFRO. 2007. IUFRO Conference on forest landscape restoration. Proceedings. Seoul, Republic of Korea. 

Lamb, D. 1998. Large‐scale ecological restoration of degraded tropical forest lands: the potential role of timber plantations. Restoration Ecology, 6(3): 271-279.

Lamb, D. 2011. Regreening the bare hills. Springer Science & Business Media.

Lamprecht, H. 1989. Silviculture in the tropics. Tropical forest ecosystems and their tree species - possibilities and methods for their long-term utilization. TZ-Verlag.

Mansourian, S., Vallauri, D., Dudley and N. (eds.) & WWF International. 2005. Forest restoration in landscapes: beyond planting treesSpringer, New York. 

Matthews, J.D. 1989 Silvicultural Systems. Oxford University Press. Chapters 19 & 20

Menzies, N. 1988. Three hundred years of Taungya: A sustainable system of forestry in south China. Human Ecology, 16(4): 361–376.

Moore, P. 2005. Forest landscape restoration after fires. Forest Restoration in Landscapes: Beyond Planting Trees: 331–338.

O’Hara, K. 2014. Multiaged Silviculture: Managing for Complex Forest Stand Structures. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Pretzsch, H. 2009. Forest Dynamics, Growth, and Yield: From Measurement to Model. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 1-39 pp.

Rizvi, A.R., Baig, S., Barrow, E. & Kumar, C. 2015. Synergies between Climate Mitigation and Adaptation in Forest Landscape Restoration. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN.

Saenger, P. (2002) Mangrove Silviculture and Restoration. In: Mangrove Ecology, Silviculture and Conservation. Springer, Dordrecht

Sapkota, L.M., Jihadah, L., Sato, M., Greijmans, M., Wiset, K., Aektasaeng, N., Daisai, A. & Gritten, D. 2019. Translating global commitments into action for successful forest landscape restoration: Lessons from Ing watershed in northern Thailand. Land Use Policy (November 2018): 104063.

Sayer, J.A. and Maginnis, S. (eds.). 2005. Forests in landscapes. Ecosystem approaches to sustainability. IUCN and Earthscan, UK. 

Stanturf J.A., Palik B.J. & Dumroese R.K. 2014 Contemporary forest restoration: A review emphasizing function. Forest Ecology and Management 331 (2014): 292–323

Stanturf, J.A., Kant, P., Lillesø, J.-P.B., Mansourian, S., Kleine, M., Graudal, L. & Madsen, P. 2015. Forest Landscape Restoration as a Key Component of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation IUFRO World Series Volume 34. 1-75 pp.

Web links

The Global Partnership of Forest and Landscape Restoration (GPFLR)
http://www.forestlandscaperestoration.org/case-studies.html
Last accessed 21.11.2020.

ITTO - Project/activity search. 2004-2014.
https://www.itto.int/project_search
Last accessed 27.11.2020.