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Eco-restoration is an approach for co** with and adapting to climate change, but its results are also vulnerable to its effects. When carried out successfully and responsibly, eco-restoration helps to safeguard biodiversity, enhance human health and happiness, increase food and water security, deliver services and products, promote economic growth, and assist in climate resilience and adaptation. Moreover, it is a problem-solving strategy that involves local groups, academics, decision-makers, and land managers in order to restore ecological harm and foster better coexistence between humans and the rest of nature. Eco-restoration is the connection that is required to shift regional, national, and worldwide environmental circumstances from a state of continuing degradation to one of net improvement when paired with conservation and sustainable usage. There has never been a time when restoring degraded ecosystems was more urgently needed. In order to account for complex ecosystem functioning, this chapter discusses problems, potential strategies, and execution, particularly in relation to climate resilience and disaster risk reduction.
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Barwal, A., Sood, A. (2023). Eco-Restoration for Climate Resilience and Disaster Risk Reduction. In: Gupta, A.K., Goyal, M.K., Singh, S.P. (eds) Ecosystem Restoration: Towards Sustainability and Resilient Development. Disaster Resilience and Green Growth. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3687-8_18
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