Rehabilitation of Degraded Forests in Asia

- Authors
- Banerjee, Ajit Kumar
- Publisher
- World Bank Publications
- Tags
- test
- ISBN
- 9780821331194
- Date
- 1995-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.70 MB
- Lang
- en
The degraded forests discussed in this paper are those that have been so badly damaged they have completely lost their protective or productive functions - but still retain their potential to revive. The paper focuses on the major areas in Asia fitting this description: swidden agriculture areas in moist forests; human-induced extensive Imperata grasslands; repeatedly hacked, low-profile hardwood forests; and overlogged forests. The areas are defined carefully to determine their extent in Asia; key characteristics are described; their impacts on the local ecology are evaluated; the social and economic pressures that prolong the degradation are analyzed; and technical methods for rehabilitating the damaged areas are proposed. Although the paper recognizes that policy interventions are also crucial, it targets a specific audience: governments and agencies that plan and prepare the technical aspects of projects for restoring these important natural resource areas in Asia.