Nome da Revista: Land Use Policy
Classificação: B2
Dossiê Temático: "Restoring South Asian Forests: Opportunities and challenges"
Prazo: 15/01/2022
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Restoring South Asian Forests: Opportunities and challenges
Guest editors:
Dr. Sharif A. Mukul, Tropical Forests and People Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore DC, Queensland, Australia
E-mail: smukul@usc.edu.au
Prof. Sunil Nautiyal, Centre for Ecological Economics and Natural Resources, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru, India
E-mail: sunil@isec.ac.in
Prof. Tek Maraseni, Centre for Sustainable Agricultural Systems, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
E-mail: Tek.Maraseni@usq.edu.au
Background:
Tropical forest restoration is one of the central strategies in the global effort to mitigate climate change, protecting biodiversity, and enhancing human well-being. The Bonn Challenge, launched in 2011, is a global commitment that aims to restore 350 million hectares of degraded forests by 2030. The recent declaration of “UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration” also recognizes the need to massively accelerate global restoration of degraded ecosystems to provide multiple environmental benefits.
According to a recent study, globally there is potential to increase tree cover to a further 0.9 billion hectares. Restoring large areas of tropical forests, however, requires knowledge about the restoration approaches, their cost-effectiveness, socio-political and ecological considerations, etc. It is also important to know which provides the best returns on investment for accumulating carbon, reducing extinction risk, improving water supplies, and other socio-economic benefits.
With almost 1.9 billion people, South Asia (i.e. Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) is home to nearly one-fourth of the world's population. The region covers approximately 5.2 million km2, which is only 3.5% of the world's land surface area, making it both the most populous and the densely populated geographical region in the world. In this region, the socio-ecological systems are strongly interlinked, and majority of the people continue to be dependent on forest ecosystems for sustaining their livelihoods. As a result, the separation of social and natural systems has become highly subjective with respect to analysing the sustainable use of forest resources. Hence there is a need to bring research outcomes upfront that provide doable insights on building a strong elucidation for in-depth solutions that could vividly depict the specific scenario for restoring the South Asian forests along with sustaining the livelihood needs of forest dependent communities.
This special issue aims to attract case studies and papers that contribute to our understanding of forest restoration in South Asian countries, socio-ecological considerations, major challenges, and opportunities in the context of local land-use policy, planning, and implementation. The contribution from the scholars would enable stakeholders in assessing the facts and our current realities that are scientifically also relevant in achieving the SDG15 which elucidates “Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss”.
Deadlines:
Submission deadline: 15th January 2022