Beyond restoration: Interdisciplinary exploration of restoration for present and future generations

Nature Restoration was the focus for this year’s Interdisciplinary Academy (IDA) group: "Beyond restoration: Interdisciplinary exploration of restoration for present and future generations". The group has analysed existing restoration frameworks to investigate how these frameworks are applied and understood in restoration practices, including objectives, potential limitations, and key success factors when applied in real-world scenarios.

On August 28th, the group will first present the outcomes of their IDA project on interdisciplinary nature restoration integrating perspectives in blue and green environments. The presentation will focus on three aspects, (i) how interdisciplinarity manifests in different academic nature restoration frameworks, (ii) how restoration practitioners in Sweden understand nature restoration and the need to integrate different disciplines, (iii) how nature-based experiences can be used to bridge diverse perspectives in nature restoration projects.

Then, an invited external panel of experienced researchers and practitioners working on restoration will discuss what is required to put the EU Nature Restoration Law into practice while taking into account broader environmental and societal values and goals.

Participants of the IDA group 2024-2025 are:

• Hedvig Nenzén, Institutionen för ekologi
• Carolyn Faithfull, Institutionen för akvatiska resurser
• Judith Lundberg-Felten, Institutionen för skoglig mykologi och växtpatologi
• Patrik Oskarsson, Institutionen för stad och land
• Minh-Xuan Truong, Institutionen för ekologi