Peatland Restoration and Ecosystem Services Science, Policy and Practice

Peatlands provide globally important ecosystem services through climate and water regulation or biodiversity conservation. While covering only 3% of the earth's surface, degrading peatlands are responsible for nearly a quarter of carbon emissions from the land use sector. Bringing together world-class experts from science, policy and practice to highlight and debate the importance of peatlands from an ecological, social and economic perspective, this book focuses on how peatland restoration can foster climate change mitigation. Featuring a range of global case studies, opportunities for reclamation and sustainable management are illustrated throughout against the challenges faced by conservation biologists. Written for a global audience of environmental scientists, practitioners and policy makers, as well as graduate students from natural and social sciences, this interdisciplinary book provides vital pointers towards managing peatland conservation in a changing environment.

List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword Julia Marton-Lefèvre; 1. Peatland restoration and ecosystem services - an introduction Aletta Bonn, Tim Allott, Martin Evans, Hans Joosten and Rob Stoneman; Part I. Peatland Ecosystems Services: 2. Peatlands across the globe Hans Joosten; 3. Peatland biodiversity and its restoration Tatiana Minayeva, Olivia Bragg and Andrey Sirin; 4. The role of peatlands in climate regulation Hans Joosten, Andrey Sirin, John Couwenberg, Jukka Laine and Pete Smith; 5. Peatland restoration and hydrology Jonathan Price, Chris Evans, Martin Evans, Tim Allott and Emma Shuttleworth; 6. Peatlands as knowledge archives Benjamin Geary and Ralph Fyfe; 7. Peatlands and cultural ecosystem services Kerry A. Waylen, Robert van de Noort and Kirsty L. Blackstock; Part II. Perspectives on Peatland Restoration: 8. Peatlands and climate change Angela V. Gallego-Sala, Robert K. Booth, Dan Charman, Colin Prentice and Zicheng Yu; 9. Blanket mire restoration and its impact on ecosystem services Tim Thom, Martin Evans, Chris Evans and Tim Allott; 10. Restoration of temperate fens: matching strategies with site potential Wiktor Kotowski, Michael Ackerman, Ab Grootjans, Agata Klimkowska, Holger Rößling and Bryan Wheeler; 11. A conceptual framework for ecosystem restoration applied to industrial peatlands Martha D. Graf and Line Rochefort; 12. Afforested and forestry-drained peatland restoration Russell Anderson, Harri Vasander, Neville Geddes, Anna Laine, Anne Tolvanen, Aileen O'Sullivan and Kaisu Aapala; 13. Restoration of high altitude peatlands on the Ruoergai Plateau (Northeastern Tibetan Plateau, China) Xiaohong Zhang, Martin Schumann, Yongheng Gao, J. Marc Foggin, Shengzhong Wang and Hans Joosten; 14. Ecosystem services, degradation and restoration of peat swamps in the Southeast Asian tropics René Dommain, Ingo Dittrich, Wim Giesen, Hans Joosten, Dipa Satriadi Rais, Marcel Silvius and Iwan Tri Cahyo Wibisono; Part III. Socio-economic and Political Solutions to Managing Natural Capital and Peatland Ecosystem Services: 15. International carbon policies as a new driver for peatland restoration Hans Joosten, John Couwenberg and Moritz von Unger; 16. Valuing peatland ecosystem services Sabine Wichmann, Luke Brander, Achim Schäfer, Marije Schaafsma, Pieter van Beukering, Dugald Tinch and Aletta Bonn; 17. Paludicultures: sustainable productive use of wet and rewetted peatlands Hans Joosten, Greta Gaudig, Franziska Tanneberger, Sabine Wichmann and Wendelin Wichtmann; 18. Peatland conservation at the science-practice interface Joseph Holden, Aletta Bonn, Mark Reed, Sarah Buckmaster, Jonathan Walker, Martin Evans and Fred Worrall; 19. Policy drivers for peatland conservation Rob Stoneman, Clifton Bain, David Locky, Nick Mawdsley, Michael McLaughlan, Shashi Kumaran-Prentice, Mark Reed and Vicky Swales; 20. Peatland restoration and ecosystem services – nature-based solutions for societal goals Aletta Bonn, Tim Allott, Martin Evans, Hans Joosten and Rob Stoneman; References; Index.

Aletta Bonn is Professor of Ecosystem Services at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena and Head of the Department of Ecosystem Services at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ within the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig.
Tim Allott is Professor of Physical Geography and Head of the School of Environment, Education and Development at the University of Manchester.
Martin Evans is Professor of Geomorphology and Head of the Department of Geography in the School of Environment and Development at the University of Manchester.
Hans Joosten is Professor of Peatland Studies and Palaeoecology at Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, Partner in the Greifswald Mire Centre.
Rob Stoneman is Chief Executive of the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust.