Year of publication 2008

Around the world, many attempts to “re-create natural” forest ecosystems on deforested land have failed. This has often been due to poorly developed techniques, as well as poor management and failure to engage local people. However, this need not be the case. This book sets out to show how successful and innovative forest restoration strategies can be devised to suit the various ecological and socio-economic conditions represented across SE Asia. It presents the generic concepts and research protocols that were used to develop successful forest restoration in N. Thailand. By adapting such concepts and protocols locally to indigenous forest ecosystems and their tree floras, it successful methods to restore forest ecosystems can be developed anywhere in tropical SE Asia. This is a book for researchers. It is aimed at helping anyone involved in setting up and running a Forest Restoration Research Unit to devise a suitable framework species approach to the restoration of forest ecosystems for biodiversity conservation and/or environmental protection.