Land Restoration

Ilan Chabay is Founder and Co-Director of the Knowledge, Learning, and Societal Change (KLASICA) international research alliance and a Research Professor at Arizona State University’s School for Global Futures in Washington, DC. His work focuses on how narratives and cultural identities shape sustainability and adaptive governance. He serves on the board of the International Disaster Risk Management Society and is an Honorary Fellow of the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature in Japan. His prior roles include leadership and research positions at the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, the University of Gothenburg, and Chalmers University. Earlier in his career, he directed science communication initiatives, including designing museum exhibitions worldwide to promote curiosity and understanding of global change. Martin Frick is an international civil servant and former diplomat with over three decades of experience in human rights, climate change, food systems, and humanitarian affairs. He serves as Director of the World Food Programme’s Global Office Germany, managing WFP’s relationship with one of its largest donors. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Club of Rome.Previously, he was Deputy to the Special Envoy for the UN Secretary-General’s 2021 Food Systems Summit, leading its strategic and operational preparations. As Senior Director at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, he oversaw the implementation of the Paris Agreement and global Climate Action initiatives. He also directed the FAO’s work on climate change and served as Germany’s Ambassador to UN organizations in Bonn, helping establish the UN’s Sustainability Hub. Earlier in his career, he worked closely with Kofi Annan’s Global Humanitarian Forum on climate justice and advised Germany’s Foreign Minister on cabinet affairs. Dr. Frick holds a PhD in Law from Regensburg University and a diploma in International Relations from Sciences Po Strasbourg.Jennifer F. Helgeson is a behavioral economist whose research focuses on community resilience and sustainable development. She co-directs the Knowledge, Learning, and Societal Change (KLASICA) international research alliance and serves on the External Research Evaluation Committee of the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature in Kyoto, Japan. She holds adjunct positions at East Carolina University, the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Previously, she was a Climate Change Adaptation Specialist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and has worked on environmental economics projects with Friends of the Earth Middle East and the Grameen Foundation in Uganda. A former Fulbright scholar, she completed her doctorate at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, with prior studies in environmental economics at the University of Oxford and in economics at Brandeis University.

• ForewordGoverning Land Restoration: Four HypothesesIntroductionPart 1 Social contexts of land restorationChapter 1.1 Land Degradation as a Security Threat Amplifier: The New Global FrontlineChapter 1.2 Land Degradation and Its Impact on SecurityChapter 1.3 (Em)Powering People: Reconciling Energy Security and Land-Use Management in the Sudano-Sahelian RegionChapter 1.4 Enabling Governance for Sustainable Land ManagementPart 2 Concepts and Methodologies for restoration and maintenanceChapter 2.1 Tenets of Soil and Landscape Restoration Chapter 2.2 Stabilization of Sand Dunes: Do Ecology and Public Perception Go Hand in Hand?Chapter 2.3 Trust Building and Mobile Pastoralism in AfricaChapter 2.4 Land Degradation from Military Toxins: Public Health Considerations and Possible Solution PathsChapter 2.5 Flood and Drought Prevention and Disaster Mitigation: Combating Land Degradation with an Integrated Natural Systems StrategyChapter 2.6 Environmental Security, Land Restoration, and the Military: A Case Study of the Ecological Task Forces in IndiaChapter 2.7 Releasing the Underground ForestPart 3 Soil, Water, and Energy – The Relationship to Land RestorationChapter 3.1 Computational Policy Support Systems for Understanding Land Degradation Effects on Water and Food Security for and from AfricaChapter 3.2 The Value of Land Restoration as a Response to Climate ChangePart 4 Economics, Policy, and Governance of Land RestorationChapter 4.1 The Importance of Land Restoration for Achieving a Land Degradation-Neutral World Chapter 4.2 Transforming Land Conflicts into Sustainable Development: A Case of the Taita Taveta of KenyaChapter 4.3 Case Study: Taranaki Farm Regenerative Agriculture. Pathways to Integrated Ecological FarmingChapter 4.4 Regenerating Agriculture to Sustain CivilizationChapter 4.5 Land Degradation: An Economic PerspectiveChapter 4.6 Four Returns, Three Zones, 20 years: A Systemic Approach to Scale Up Landscape Restoration by Business and Investors to Create a Restoration IndustryChapter 4.7 Restoring Degraded Ecosystems by Unlocking Organic Market Potential: Case Study from Mashonaland East, ZimbabweChapter 4.8 A Continuing Inquiry into Ecosystem Restoration: Examples from China’s Loess Plateau and Locations Worldwide and Their Emerging ImplicationsPart 5 The Community as a Resource for Land RestorationChapter 5.1 Poverties and Wealth: Perceptions, Empowerment, and Agency in Sustainable Land ManagementChapter 5.2 All Voices Heard: A Conflict Prevention Approach to Land and Natural Resources Part 6 Gender in the Context of Land RestorationChapter 6.1 Land Restoration, Agriculture, and Climate Change: Enriching Gender Programming Through Strengthening Intersectional PerspectivesChapter 6.2 Gender Roles and Land Use Preferences – Implications to Landscape Restoration in Southeast AsiaPart 7 Communities, Restoration, and ResilienceChapter 7.1 Drought-Management Policies and Preparedness Plans: Changing the Paradigm from Crisis to Risk ManagementChapter 7.2 Not the Usual Suspects: Environmental Impacts of Migration in Ghana’s Forest-Savanna Transition ZoneChapter 7.3 The Global Restoration InitiativePart 8 Selected Case StudiesChapter 8.1 Indigenuity: Reclaiming Our Relationship with the LandChapter 8.2 Land Restoration and Community Trust: Keys to Combating PovertyChapter 8.3 Shifting from Individual to Collective Action: Living Land’s Experience in the Baviaanskloof, South AfricaChapter 8.4 Development and Success, For Whom and Where: The Central Anatolian CaseChapter 8.5 Sharing Knowledge to Spread Sustainable Land Management (SLM)Part 9 Suggestions for Ways to Use this BookChapter 9.1 Buffets, Cafes, or a Multicourse Meal: On the Many Possible Ways to Use this BookPart 10 Concluding Remarks and a Way ForwardChapter 10.1 Concluding Remarks