Restoring Degraded Lands

Restoring Degraded Lands

Achieving UN Sustainable Development Goals

Dubey, Pradeep Kumar; Tripathi, Vishal; Srivastava, Pankaj; Abhilash, P.C.; Rakshit, Amitava; Edrisi, Sheikh Adil

Elsevier - Health Sciences Division

02/2029

600

Mole

Inglês

9780323999250

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I. Introduction 1. Global land degradation: A state of the art 2. Land degradation, societal development and UN-SDGs 3. Facilitating land restoration during the UN-Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

II. Processes and characteristics of land degradation 4. Different processes of land degradation 5. Characteristics and mechanisms in degraded lands due to salinity 6. Marginal and degraded lands under arid regions: Challenges and opportunities 7. Drivers and mechanisms of Land desertification: Current trends and challenges 8. Assessing the mechanisms and cycling of contaminants in different contaminated sites

III. Land restoration practices on degraded lands for sustainable development 9. Practices for restoring the degraded lands: A state of the art 10. Ecological considerations in restoring marginal and degraded lands 11. Societal deliberations of restoration initiatives on marginal and degraded lands 12. Economic considerations in restoring marginal and degraded lands

IV. Eco-restoration of degraded lands for building bio-based economy 13. Eco-restoration of degraded lands for biomass and biofuel production 14. Prospects & promises for suitable and sustainable agricultural practices 15. Developing degraded lands for harnessing various ecosystem and value-added services

V. Policy aspects and framework design for eco-restoration of degraded lands 16. Global policies for current degraded lands exploration and exploitation 17. Policy development and amendments for the eco-restoration of degraded lands 18. Suitable framework design for the eco-restoration of degraded lands 19. Nature-based solutions for restoring degraded lands for sustainable development

IV. Case studies 20. Revisiting land degradation status, management and policy intervention - Indian context 21. Community based restoration of degraded forests in Columbia 22. The effect of fire on land degradation in Australia 23. The effect of coal mining on land degradation in Canada 24. Restoration strategies for degraded land due to emerging pollutants in Kenya 25. Sustainable agricultural practices employed in lesser Himalayan region 26. Forest landscape restoration in Indonesia
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Land restoration; eco-restoration; land management; drivers of land degradation; biomass and bioenergy; ecosystem services; bioproducts; circular bioeconomy; policy framework