Large-scale Ecosystem Restoration Case Studies and Panel Discussion
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This symposium presents four examples of large-scale ecosystem restoration programs, perspectives on their greatest successes and greatest challenges, followed by a moderated discussion of key common dimensions and enabling conditions. These four case studies will represent different scales, regions of the world, and institutional structure. Each presentation will touch on basic program/project characteristics, including some found in SER’s Project Database (i.e., timeframe, problem definition, planning and design, project activities, project outcomes, key lessons learned, long-term management, and funding), and may also locate each effort within existing restoration conceptual frameworks (e.g., as discussed in Woodworth, 2017, and references cited therein). The presentations will be followed by a moderated discussion. Moderator questions to panelists may include questions probing essential enabling/authorizing conditions supporting key successes; critical elements of adaptive management frameworks; community engagement and social equity best practices; Indigenous leadership; and planning/design for climate and community resilience. Finally, audience questions for the presenters/panelists will be invited. This symposium seeks to contribute to the work of earlier observers, practitioners, and scholars in identifying conceptual and practice frameworks that support large-scale ecosystem restoration (e.g., Doyle and Drew, 2010) and “restorative activities” (Aronson et al., 2017).