A Policy-Driven Knowledge Agenda for Global Forest and Landscape Restoration

Conservation Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 125-132

  Chazdon, Robin L ^a   Brancalion, Pedro H S ^b   Lamb, David ^c   Laestadius, Lars ^d   Calmon, Miguel ^e   Kumar, Chetan ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e International Union for the Conservation of Nature   (United States)

Author keywords

Aichi biodiversity targets; Bonn challenge; ecological restoration; environmental policy; large scale restoration; multidisciplinary research; New York Declaration on Forests; restoration governance; restoration planning; science policy interface

Indexed keywords

EID: 84953238034     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12220     Document Type: Article

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