Reforesting the Earth

The Human Drivers of Forest Conservation, Restoration, and Expansion

Thomas Rudel (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2023
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-21068-3 (ISBN)

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Forests offer a natural solution to the climate crisis. Conserving and expanding them not only removes carbon from the atmosphere but also protects and fosters biodiversity. Yet the results of elite-driven reforestation initiatives have been disappointing, and in many world regions deforestation continues relentlessly.

Thomas K. Rudel examines a wide range of conservation and reforestation efforts to shed new light on the social factors that lead to success. He details effective coalition-building strategies and organizational models that have protected, restored, and expanded forests around the world. Rudel argues that successful reforestation projects bring together diverse groups of people with a stake in the land and a commitment to collective decision making. They give voice to different economic and social interests, including small farmers, Indigenous peoples, loggers, ranchers, government officials, NGO personnel, international donors, and climate activists. These varied coalition members each make commitments to promote forests. Farmers limit the extent of lands under cultivation, governments protect land tenure for smallholders, and wealthy donors make payments for environmental protections.

Timely and accessible, Reforesting the Earth offers a guide to scaling up local efforts to sequester carbon and makes a powerful case for a global reforestation movement.

Thomas K. Rudel is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Human Ecology and Sociology at Rutgers University. His most recent book is Shocks, States, and Sustainability: The Origins of Radical Environmental Reforms (2019).

Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
1. Forests: A Natural Climate Solution
2. Theory: Societal Transformations, Corporatism, and Forest Gains
3. Forest Losses, the Conservation Movement, and Protected Areas
4. Rural–Urban Migration, Land Abandonment, and the Spread of Secondary Forests
5. Planted Forests: Concessions, Plantations, and the Strength of States
6. Agroforests I: The Spread of Silvopastures
7. Agroforests II: Restoring Agroforests in the Humid Tropics
8. Resurgent Forests: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis
9. A Global Forest Transition?
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	04.08.2023
Reihe/Serie	Society and the Environment
Zusatzinfo	16 figures, 12 tables
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	0-231-21068-X / 023121068X
ISBN-13	978-0-231-21068-3 / 9780231210683
Zustand	Neuware