Forest landscape restoration (FLR) is a planned process that aims to regain ecological integrity and enhance human wellbeing in deforested or degraded landscapes. The aim of this book is to better understand the need to take human and institutional factors, as well as the more obvious biophysical, into consideration in FLR.

Part I: Why Integration Matters 1. The Need for Integrated Approaches to Forest Landscape Restoration 2. Integration for Restoration: Reflecting on Lessons Learned from Past Silo Strongholds 3. Considering Diverse Knowledge Systems in Forest Landscape Restoration 4. Power, Inequality and Rights: A Political Ecology of Forest Restoration Part II: Approaches, Systems and Processes 5. Social-Ecological Systems and Forest Landscape Restoration 6. Integrated Landscape Approaches to Forest Restoration 7. Forest Landscape Restoration and Land Sparing-Sharing: Shifting the Debate towards Nature's Contribution to People 8. Linking forest conservation and food security through agroecology: insights for Forest Landscape Restoration Part III: Integrated Decision-Making in Forest Landscape Restoration 9. Stakeholders and Forest Landscape Restoration: Who decides what to restore, why and where? 10. Tenure, Property Rights and Forest Landscape Restoration 11. Polycentric Governance and Forest Landscape Restoration: Considering Local Needs, Knowledge Types, and Democratic Principles 12. Integration of Traditional and Western Knowledge in Forest Landscape Restoration Part IV: Synthesis and Conclusions 13. Putting the Pieces Together: Integration for Forest Landscape Restoration Implementation