Ecological Restoration in the Typical Areas

Human activities are strongly regional and targeted, and usually tightly bound to the regional natural resources, the needs of social economic development, and ecological fragility, which cause typical regional ecosystem degradation problems. For serious degradation areas, it is an effective way to carry out regional ecological restoration and construction for restoration ecology study, which is the key to promote sustainable development and ecological security, and also the urgent requirement for the current reality. According to the demand of regional sustainable development, this chapter focused on ecological deterioration, and restoration and construction in typical areas. The chapter specially made thematic discussions on new progression in degradation problems of developing and utilizing the resource, ecological restoration practices, theory, techniques, mode, and management. This chapter was trying to provide experience and lessons, macro guidance and decision-making reference for ecological restoration in typical areas. From the regional cases of this chapter, we can see that regional ecological restoration and construction is intricate. Finally, it is necessary to point out that there are many regional ecological restoration cases, here just introduce several cases in western fragile region. The ecological restoration cases revealed in this chapter are just the first attempt to conclude the past experiences in China, which are initial identification for correlated theories and methods.