Topic Overview

Having discussed about conservation challenges and conservation governance, this module particularly focus on forest restoration policies and practices with case studies. Here, you will learn about key restoration policies and practices of forest, ecosystem and threatened species in Asia, particularly China, analyze their development context, evaluate their impact and discuss about future challenges and way forward.

Learning objectives:

• Identify key restoration policies and practices of forest, ecosystem and threatened species in China and analyze their development context.
• Analyze impact of key forest policies and practices in conservation and discuss future challenges and way forward.

Required & Optional Readings

Required Readings

• Fischer, J., Riechers, M., Loos, J., Martin-Lopez, B., & Temperton, V. M. (2020). Making the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration a Social-Ecological Endeavour. Trends in Ecology & Evolution.
• Bryan, B. A., Gao, L., Ye, Y., Sun, X., Connor, J. D., Crossman, N. D., ... & Liu, Z. (2018). China’s response to a national land-system sustainability emergency. Nature, 559(7713), 193-204.
• Hua, F., Xu, J., & Wilcove, D. S. (2018). A New Opportunity to Recover Native Forests in China. Conservation Letters, 11(2), e12396.
• Zinda, J. A., & Zhang, Z. (2019). Explaining heterogeneous afforestation outcomes: How community officials and households mediate tree cover change in China. World Development, 122, 385-398.

Fundamental Concepts

• Topic 3.2 Forest Restoration Policy and Practices.pdf Download Topic 3.2 Forest Restoration Policy and Practices.pdf

Self-test Quiz (For certificate learning only)

After viewing lecture PPT presentation for this topic, take 10 minutes to take this self-test quiz. It is intended to serve as a quick check points of your learning progress about the factual content for this topic. Immediate feedback or answer key will be provided after your attempt. Click Self-test Quiz 3.2 to start.

Online Discussions (For certificate learning only)

Each week you will participant in the topic discussions of the week. The purpose of these discussions is to enable you to critically discuss and apply the core concepts you learned each week. Each online weekly topic discussion will include two parts: 1) your initial response to topic discussion questions posted by the instructor; and 2) your peer comment on other peer posts. Instructor will post one or two discussion questions related to the assigned module and topic every week. Response to these online discussion question and subsequent peer comment on these responses is mandatory. By doing this, you will enhance your knowledge through multiple perspectives posted by your peers. These questions will be focused on the most important aspect of the assigned module and topic and reflection on how you can apply these concept and tools from the assigned module and topic in your own context. For detailed requirements and grading rubric go to Online Discussions page.

To join the online topic discussions for this week go to Online Topic Discussion 3.2.

Graded Assignment for the Week (For certificate learning only)

NA.