Forwarding forest restoration | The Story Behind the Paper

About this episode

Anna discusses forest restoration with researchers Mariana Hernandez-Montilla and Katie Devenish, exploring their findings and implications for ecology.

For today's episode, Anna is joined by Mariana Hernandez-Montilla and Katie Devenish, authors of a recently published paper in People and Nature, "Forwarding forest restoration: Seven key socio-ecological issues for advancing forest restoration in a world in flux". Katie and Mariana discuss their route into ecology, the reasons for their research, their findings, and how their discoveries can support and inform the research area moving forward. Read their full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.70254

People in this episode

Host: Anna

Guests: Mariana Hernandez-Montilla, Katie Devenish

Topics covered

• forest restoration
• socio-ecological issues
• ecology research
• environmental science
• sustainability

Keywords

• forest restoration
• ecology
• socio-ecological issues
• environmental research
• sustainability

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: People and Nature

Books & works: Forwarding forest restoration: Seven key socio-ecological issues for advancing forest restoration in a world in flux

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