Ecological restoration as objective, target, and tool in international biodiversity policy

Rewilding as Tool and Target in the Management for Biodiversity

Biodiversity crises a comparative analysis of biodiversity and ecosystem services by ecological restoration. A Review

The practice of renewing and restoring degraded, damaged, or destroyed ecosystems and habitats in the environment by active human intervention and action. However, the effectiveness of restoration actions in increasing provision of both biodiversity and ecosystem services have not been evaluated systematically. A meta-analysis of 20 restoration assessments in a wide range of ecosystem types acr...

Restocking Herbivorous Fish Populations As a Social-Ecological Restoration Tool in Coral Reefs

The degradation of the world’s coral reefs has aroused growing interest in ecological restoration as a countermeasure, which is widely criticized, mainly due to cost-effectiveness concerns. Here, we propose the restocking of herbivorous fish as a restoration tool, based on supply of young fish to degraded reefs, with the aims of: (1) Buildup of a critical fish biomass for basic ecosystem functi...

Ecological Restoration, Global Challenges, Social Aspects and Environmental Benefits

This book consists of 14 chapters covering important aspects in regards to various terrestrial ecosystems, wetlands, river systems, mine site rehabilitation, marsh ecology and heavy metals pollution. Also aims to fill some of the information gaps in ecological restoration, particularly in under-researched ecosystems around the world. Restoration ecology emerged as a separate field in ecology in...

Pursuing International Competitiveness in Iranian Wheat Policy

After the war with Iraq which ended in 1988, Iran implemented several agricultural support policies based on Five-Year National Development Plans. The main objective of these plans in the agriculture sector was to make the agricultural economy more market-oriented and to encourage sustainable agriculture. This paper investigates the extent to which Iran's government has been able to achieve thi...