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Equitable and Inclusive Landscape Restoration Planning: Learning from a Restoration Opportunity Assessment in India

Ruchika Singh, Karishma Shelar, Marie Duraisami, Will Anderson and Rajendra Singh Gautam
Ecological Restoration March 2021, 39 (1-2) 108-119; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/er.39.1-2.108
Ruchika Singh
World Resources Institute India, Sustainable Landscapes and Restoration, AADI, 2 Balbir Saxena Marg, New Delhi, Delhi 110016, India
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Karishma Shelar
International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands.
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Marie Duraisami
World Resources Institute India, New Delhi, India.
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Will Anderson
World Resources Institute, Washington DC, USA.
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Rajendra Singh Gautam
Institute of Livelihood Research and Training, Bhopal, India.
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Local people must be at the center of restoring landscapes. This paper adapts the popular Restoration Opportunity Assessment Methodology (ROAM), which helps show where land can be restored in a given area by growing trees or protecting forests, to the economically poor yet resource-rich Sidhi District of Madhya Pradesh in India. By employing an intersectional adaptive governance lens and including the perspectives of people and organizations throughout the larger social landscape, we analyzed the multiple benefits landscape restoration can have on ecosystem services, social inclusion, the economy, and local livelihoods. These participatory methods and tools draw attention to the critical socio-economic components of restoration. The findings indicate that different social groups, like powerful men and marginalized women, have different restoration goals (even for tree species selection). They also show that investing in restoration can create thousands of jobs and secure thousands of rural livelihoods. Analyses that produce these socioeconomic insights can inform implementation strategies that are both inclusive and actionable on the ground. They can also identify roadblocks, like unclear land tenure and resource rights, which can impede restoration. Most importantly, these inclusive strategies can ensure that local people serve as more than passive beneficiaries. They place them in their appropriate role as the central stakeholders driving implementation.

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  • agroforestry
  • nature-based solutions
  • social inclusion
  • social network analysis
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This open access article is distributed under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0) and is freely available online at: (http://er.uwpress.org)

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Ecological Restoration Mar 2021, 39 (1-2) 108-119; DOI: 10.3368/er.39.1-2.108

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Ruchika Singh, Karishma Shelar, Marie Duraisami, Will Anderson, Rajendra Singh Gautam
Ecological Restoration Mar 2021, 39 (1-2) 108-119; DOI: 10.3368/er.39.1-2.108
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