Advanced course

LAND RESTORATION TO COMBAT DESERTIFICATION: INNOVATIVE APPROACHES, QUALITY CONTROL AND PROJECT EVALUATION.

Zaragoza (Spain), 19-25 September 2005

ORGANISERS:

• Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Zaragoza (IAMZ-CIHEAM)
• REACTION project. European Commission, Directorate General for Research

OBJECTIVES:

• To present the latest scientific and technical advances in land restoration with the purpose of combating desertification, in arid, semi-arid and dry-subhumid conditions.
• To develop the innovative aspects of the land restoration process, from project planning to execution and the monitoring of results, as well as restoration technology, from plant production in the nursery to planting or seeding.
• To develop criteria and procedures for quality control of all processes forming part of forest restoration projects, from seed collection to monitoring protocols.

LECTURES:

• 1. Introduction: problems and perspectives of land restoration (R. Vallejo; 540 KB)
• 2. The restoration process

  2.1. Objectives, motivations and strategies of ecological restoration (J. Aronson; 1.835 KB)
  2.2. Project design, monitoring and quality control (R. Navarro; 411 KB)
  2.3. Landscape evaluation of restored ecosystems. Social and cultural evaluation of restoration projects. Experiences from IUCN (D. Lamb; 7.191 KB)
  2.4. Long term restoration projects in the Mediterranean: results of the REACTION database (D. Vallauri; 9.377 KB)
  2.5. Restoration projects evaluation: REACTION approach (S. Bautista; 3.77 KB)
• 3. Innovative approaches in forest restoration

  3.1.a. Seedling quality and provenance in Mediterranean restoration projects: Plant quality in forest restoration: morphological and physiological components (P.Villar; 3.171 KB)
  3.1.b. Seedling quality and provenance in Mediterranean restoration projects: genetic quality of forest reproductive materials in land restoration programs (R. Alia; 4.904 KB)
  3.2. Field techniques: manipulating the environment for seeding and planting (S.G. Whisenant; 2.271 KB)
  3.3. Innovations in semiarid restoration (J. Cortina; 10.076 KB)
  3.4.a. Post-fire rehabilitation: a process-based understanding (L. MacDonald; 5.260 KB)
  3.4.b. Post-fire rehabilitation: Effects of forest restoration and roads (L. MacDonald; 4.014 KB)
• 4. Presentation of participant’s professional experience

• 5. Field trip