Forest Landscape Restoration in the Netherlands: Policy Aspects and Knowledge Management

The Netherlands is a densely populated and industrialized country with corresponding environmental challenges and loss of natural habitat. The strong pressure on our natural capital also resulted in a relatively early awareness of the necessity and possibilities of ecological restoration. Over the past decades various restoration efforts have been undertaken to counteract the effects of landscape degradation. Important lessons have been learned regarding the effective management of knowledge that is needed for successful (forest) landscape restoration. A key element of success in all situations is that restoration arrangements include practitioners, representatives of the research community and governmental policy makers. In this chapter we sketch out the developments in the Netherlands and the relationship with the learning network of the Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration.