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SSS0.18

Restoration and Rehabilitation in agriculture and forest land. Strategies and Techniques for a sustainable management
Convener: Manuel Esteban Lucas-Borja  | Co-Conveners: Artemi Cerdà , Mary Nichols , Peter Robichaud 
PICO
 / Wed, 20 Apr, 08:30–10:00

Forest fires, ploughing, grazing, mining...are some examples of the human activities that change the soil system, and also the water and biota resources. To restore and rehabilitate the areas affected by land degradation processes is a need for a sustainable ecosystem management. This session will show examples of successful and non-sucssesful managements to rehabilitate and restore degraded ecosystems. We will pay special attention to the strategies and the techniques.
This session propose an exchange of knowledge, ideas and new techniques and strategies that are used under different climatic conditions.
We encourage you to submit papers from your own research experience, review papers and your experience on research and applied projects
Upon the review and improvement of the manuscript submitted to this session on Restoration and Rehabilitation in agriculture and forest land an special issue will be published in the Journal "Land Degradation and Development" (IF, 3.1)