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Integrating forest and landscape restoration into national forest monitoring systems

Year of publication 2021

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 80 p.

Author Ramírez, C., Morales, D.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

ISBN 978-92-5-134820-8

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This document, based on the Voluntary Guidelines on national forest monitoring (VGNFM), provides a series of good practices organised into sixteen steps to facilitate the integration of the monitoring process to officers responsible for forest and landscape restoration (FLR) and the national forest monitoring system (NFMS). An inter-institutional work is proposed with key stakeholders to discuss the new information needs according to the approach and modalities of FLR implementation. Based on these needs, indicators, metrics, and monitoring attributes are organised.

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Ramírez, C. and Morales, D. 2021. Integrating forest and landscape restoration into national forest monitoring systems. FAO. Rome. 

https://doi.org/10.4060/cb6021en

Language English

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