Grasslands are contested ecosystems due to our scant understanding of their ecological and socioeconomic roles also the ambiguity in what exactly constitutes them. This problem escalates absence proper governance. In this paper, we explore historical accounts Indian grasslands trace how they have shaped contemporary grassland conservation restoration policies. The paper draws from concept Biome...

Contents 1. Introduction 1.1. Arid Ecosystems 1.2. Desertification 2. Degradation of natural resources 3. Frame conditions: The importance of scale 4. Defining compartments for feasible approaches 5. Assessment and monitoring of the problem 6. Approaches to combating degradation in arid systems 6.1. Practical steps within the biophysical system 6.1.1 Water resources 6.1.2. Conservation of soils...

According to its advocates, an ecosystem-services-based approach to conservation will engender greater public support and produce more durable victories. Here, we identify three potential opportunity costs associated with such an approach: (1) diminished attention to protecting rare, localized species (the night parrot effect); (2) diminished attention to protecting wild, remote areas (the prox...

The population awareness about environmental conservation is raising and this brought about an increase in the number of environmental restoration studies. Nucleation is a technique used for environmental restoration, where small nuclei of vegetation are established within degraded land. The aim of this paper was to evaluate, by doing a bibliometric analysis, the tendencies and gaps in the stud...

An increased understanding of the current and potential future impacts of climate change has significantly influenced conservation in practice in recent years. Climate change has necessitated a shift toward longer planning time horizons, moving baselines, and evolving conservation goals and targets. This shift has resulted in new perspectives on, and changes in, the basic approaches practitione...