Highlights•Developed countries and urban communities hold relational values.•Developing
countries and rural communities hold instrumental values.•Culture plays a positive role in …

When it comes to implementing successful ecological restoration projects, the social,
political, economic, and cultural dimensions are often as important as-and sometimes more …

Context The global trend of landscape simplification for industrial agriculture is known to
cause losses in biodiversity and ecosystem service diversity. Despite these problems being …

Ecological restoration is the process of repairing ecosystems that have been degraded by
human activity. Because success depends upon the support of communities, engaging with …

A significant percentage of contemporary restoration work, while informed by history, aims
for a novel state rather than an exact simulacrum of any particular historical state. However …

Scholars, planners and practitioners worldwide are increasingly recognising that landscape
governance is a promising approach for restoring forested landscapes and simultaneously …

Ecological restoration requires value‐laden choices about what goals, references, and
methods to use in a particular area. The restoration ecology literature has identified a …

Knowledge of how ecocultural landscapes co-evolved, how they were shaped and
maintained by local people, and what processes disturbed the landscape should inform the …

This paper sketches the religious roots of landscape restoration, showing how it morphed
from a theological to an environmental agenda, while retaining the fervour of a sacred …

Forty years ago, ecological restoration was conceptualized through a natural science lens.
Today, ecological restoration has evolved into a social and scientific concept. The duality of …