ABSTRACT
The drivers of forest loss and degradation are predominantly human-made, and many of these causes straddle spatial and temporal scales as well as sector boundaries. Understanding and dealing with these complexities may best be addressed through integrated and interdisciplinary approaches. This chapter discusses challenges of reconciling different values and objectives in forest landscape restoration (FLR) and the opportunities that adopting interdisciplinary and integrated approaches may offer to FLR implementation. It outlines the purpose of the book, namely, to help fill knowledge gaps related to FLR planning, implementation and monitoring by bringing together scientists from a range of disciplines and backgrounds to tackle the interdisciplinary dimension of FLR. Three questions that the book seeks to answer are introduced, namely: (1) What are some of the integration challenges for FLR? (2) What can we learn from other large-scale land use initiatives, frameworks or approaches? and (3) How can integrated approaches improve FLR decision-making processes?
