Restoring Degraded Lands: Achieving UN Sustainable Development Goals

Restoring Degraded Lands: Achieving UN Sustainable Development Goals addresses challenges for researchers and policymakers in environmental management and sustainability in identifying, characterizing, and classifying degradation phenomena occurring in terrestrial landscapes. The book presents accounts of degradation processes, site-specific strategies for revitalization, and socio-economic and climate impacts of sustainable management. Through the latest research from experts in the field and global case studies, the book offers strategies for revitalizing degraded lands, explores impacts of restoration on socioeconomics of local populations, and presents approaches for sustainable land management. These strategies provide a framework for eco-restoration, taking into account ecological, environmental, and social well-being. Presents global trends in the land degradation process and their drivers Offers a holistic approach in categorizing types of land degradation and addressing them with site-specific advanced restoration technologies and measures Examines multidimensional advantages of restoring degraded lands, including mitigating climate change Explores various impacts of revitalization approaches on the basic socioeconomics of the local population and developing a suitable action plan for sustainable management INDICE: 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

• ISBN: 978-0-323-99925-0
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 600
• Fecha Publicación: 28/02/2023
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés