Author Evans, K.A. & Guariguata, M.R.

Year of publication 2016

New global forest restoration initiatives present an unparalleled opportunity to reverse the trend of deforestation and forest degradation in the coming years. This effort will require the collaboration of stakeholders at all levels, and most importantly the participation and support of local people. These ambitious restoration initiatives will also require monitoring systems that allow for scalability and adaptability to a range of local sites in order to understand how a given restoration effort is progressing, to determine why or why not it is succeeding, and to learn from both its successes and failures. A scalable monitoring system would have the potential to aggregate participatory monitoring information from multiple sites within a country or globally.