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Restoring Degraded Lands: Achieving UN Sustainable Development Goals addresses challenges for researchers and policymakers in environmental management and sustainability in identi… Read more
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I. Introduction
1. Global land degradation: A state of the art
2. Land degradation, societal development and UN-SDGs
3. Facilitating land restoration during the UN-Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
II. Processes and characteristics of land degradation
4. Different processes of land degradation
5. Characteristics and mechanisms in degraded lands due to salinity
6. Marginal and degraded lands under arid regions: Challenges and opportunities
7. Drivers and mechanisms of Land desertification: Current trends and challenges
8. Assessing the mechanisms and cycling of contaminants in different contaminated sites
III. Land restoration practices on degraded lands for sustainable development
9. Practices for restoring the degraded lands: A state of the art
10. Ecological considerations in restoring marginal and degraded lands
11. Societal deliberations of restoration initiatives on marginal and degraded lands
12. Economic considerations in restoring marginal and degraded lands
IV. Eco-restoration of degraded lands for building bio-based economy
13. Eco-restoration of degraded lands for biomass and biofuel production
14. Prospects & promises for suitable and sustainable agricultural practices
15. Developing degraded lands for harnessing various ecosystem and value-added services
V. Policy aspects and framework design for eco-restoration of degraded lands
16. Global policies for current degraded lands exploration and exploitation
17. Policy development and amendments for the eco-restoration of degraded lands
18. Suitable framework design for the eco-restoration of degraded lands
19. Nature-based solutions for restoring degraded lands for sustainable development
IV. Case studies
20. Revisiting land degradation status, management and policy intervention - Indian context
21. Community based restoration of degraded forests in Columbia
22. The effect of fire on land degradation in Australia
23. The effect of coal mining on land degradation in Canada
24. Restoration strategies for degraded land due to emerging pollutants in Kenya
25. Sustainable agricultural practices employed in lesser Himalayan region
26. Forest landscape restoration in Indonesia
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