CNH-RCN: Tropical Reforestation Network: Building a Socioecological Understanding of Tropical Reforestation

热带森林的可持续利用取决于森林在砍伐后再生的能力。 这一项目-热带重新造林研究协调网络-将解决我们在理解重新造林的社会和生态驱动因素以及重新造林或商业林业的替代重新造林方法的后果方面存在的主要差距。将在第一次讲习班上组成跨学科小组，重点关注四个专题领域：⑴热带森林变化的社会和生态原因; ⑵受干扰热带森林景观的生态系统恢复; ⑶气候变异与重新造林之间的相互作用; ⑷重新造林的社会经济和生态成本和效益。各小组将审查以前发表的学术研究;规划新的研究提案，以弥补知识差距;为政府和非政府机构和组织编写政策简报;为大学生和重新造林专业人员编写教学单元。第三个研讨会将以早期职业科学家为特色，重点关注管理再生森林的社会和生态挑战。该项目将帮助指导在退化和非生产性土地上积极恢复森林的努力。与忧思科学家联盟、养护教育工作者和从业者网络以及环境领导力和培训倡议的伙伴关系将使参与者能够通过网络研讨会、政策简报、实地培训和在线课程向决策者、学生、林业工作者和公众传播他们的调查结果。该网络的活动将促进国际合作，并通过关于气候多变性对热带重新造林的社会和生态影响的分布式研究生研讨会为研究生提供培训。

Sustainable use of tropical forests depends upon the ability of forests to regrow after clearing. This project -- Tropical Reforestation Research Coordination Network -- will address major gaps in our understanding of the social and ecological drivers of reforestation, and the consequences of alternative methods of reforestation for reforestation or for commercial forestry. Interdisciplinary teams will be formed at an initial workshop to focus on four thematic areas: 1) social and ecological causes of forest changes in the tropics; 2) recovery of ecosystems in disturbed tropical forest landscapes; 3) interactions between climate variability and reforestation; and 4) socioeconomic and ecological costs and benefits of reforestation. Teams will review previously published, scholarly research; plan new research proposals to address knowledge gaps; produce policy briefs for governmental and non-governmental agencies and organizations; and produce teaching modules for university students and reforestation professionals. A third workshop featuring early career scientists will focus on the social and ecological challenges of managing regenerating forests. This project will help guide efforts to actively restore forests on degraded and unproductive lands. Partnerships with the Union of Concerned Scientists, the Network of Conservation Educators and Practitioners, and the Environmental Leadership and Training Initiative will allow participants to transmit their findings to policy makers, students, foresters, and the general public via webinars, policy briefs, field training, and on-line courses. The network's activities will promote international collaboration and provide training for graduate students through a distributed graduate student seminar on the social and ecological impacts of climate variability on tropical reforestation.