Ecosystem Restoration and Landscape-level Adaptation Projects
Ecosystem restoration and landscape-level adaptation have become cornerstones of India’s climate resilience and sustainable development strategy. With nearly 30% of India’s land degraded and half of its biodiversity-rich ecosystems under stress, restoring landscapes is not only an ecological necessity but also a developmental imperative. Landscape-level adaptation links climate resilience, livelihoods, and biodiversity through nature-based, integrated interventions that operate beyond isolated projects.
What is Ecosystem Restoration?
- It refers to assisting the recovery of degraded, damaged, or destroyed ecosystems to regain ecological functionality.
- Includes reforestation, soil restoration, wetland revival, and river rejuvenation.
- Recognized under the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021–2030).
- Restoration increases carbon sequestration, ....
Do You Want to Read More?
Subscribe Now
Take Annual Subscription and get the following Advantage
The annual members of the Civil Services Chronicle can read the monthly content of the magazine as well as the Chronicle magazine archives.
Readers can study all the material before the last six months of the Civil Services Chronicle monthly issue in the form of Chronicle magazine archives.
Related Content
Geography Of India
- 1 India’s Strategic Location in the Global and Regional Contexts
- 2 Geological Evolution of the Indian Subcontinent
- 3 India’s Geological Uniqueness: Some Salient Aspects
- 4 Peninsular Block, Himalayan Region, and Indo-Gangetic Plains: Comparative Features
- 5 Major Physiographic Divisions of India
- 6 Coastal and Desert Landforms of India
- 7 Origin and Characteristics of Major River Systems
- 8 Integrated River Basin Governance
- 9 Interlinking of Rivers and their Ecological-Economic Trade-offs
- 10 Groundwater Stress Mapping
