{"product_id":"agroforestry-based-ecosystem-services-9783036517421","title":"Agroforestry-Based Ecosystem Services","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Meine Van Noordwijk\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Mdpi AG\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Mdpi AG\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a dynamic interface between agriculture and forestry, agroforestry has only recently\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebeen formally recognized as a relevant part of land use with 'trees outside forest' in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eimportant parts of the world-but not everywhere yet. The Sustainable Development\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGoals have called attention to the need for the multifunctionality of landscapes that\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esimultaneously contribute to multiple goals. In the UN decade of landscape restoration, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eas well as in response to the climate change urgency and biodiversity extinction crisis, an\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eincrease in global tree cover is widely seen as desirable, but its management by farmers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eor forest managers remains contested. Agroforestry research relates tree-soil-crop-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elivestock interactions at the plot level with landscape-level analysis of social-ecological\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esystems and efforts to transcend the historical dichotomy between forest and agriculture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eas separate policy domains. An 'ecosystem services' perspective quantifies land\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eproductivity, flows of water, net greenhouse gas emissions, and biodiversity conservation, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand combines an 'actor' perspective (farmer, landscape manager) with that of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'downstream' stakeholders (in the same watershed, ecologically conscious consumers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eelsewhere, global citizens) and higher-level regulators designing land-use policies and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003espatial zoning.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mdpi AG","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45414450593943,"sku":"9783036517421","price":8700.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783036517421.webp?v=1767920241","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/agroforestry-based-ecosystem-services-9783036517421","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}