Abstract
Despite a continued focus within the land cover change arena on deforestation, the realization that reforestation, regrowth and forest regeneration are occurring globally has started to occur. While previously, such documentation had been found for developed countries, in more recent years this has also been found in developing nations, and seemingly due to a multitude of factors. This book pulls together many of the authors working on this topic, studying regions from around the globe, to understand these individual cases of reforestation and regrowth, and through this process to better understand the dominant processes, pathways and drivers of reforestation and forest regrowth on the landscape.
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Acknowledgments The idea of this book grew out of many discussions at the Center for the Study of Institutions, Population and Environmental Change (CIPEC), at Indiana University, and we would like to thank our colleagues at CIPEC for the many helpful exchanges we have had with them relating to reforestation research. We are also indebted to our families - Jane Southworth would like to thank Romer Kohlhaas and Parker Kohlhaas, and Harini Nagendra would like to thank Venkatachalam Suri and Dhwani Suri for their patience with us as we worked our way through this book. Harini also gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Branco Weiss Society in Science fellowship.
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Southworth, J., Nagendra, H. (2009). Reforestation: Challenges and Themes in Reforestation Research. In: Nagendra, H., Southworth, J. (eds) Reforesting Landscapes. Landscape Series, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9656-3_1
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