A call to action by the ecological restoration joint working group of SER International and the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management  George D. Gann & David Lamb, editors PDF Version in English Versión PDF en Español Introduction Many of the world’s ecosystems have undergone significant degradation with negative impacts on biological diversity and ... read more

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Restoration Ecology, the Society's Journal on applied research, is offered to SER members at significantly reduced rates. It is peer-reviewed by a 50-member Editorial Board which includes eminent scholars from around the world. Primary emphases are: research on restoration and ecological principles that help explain restoration processes, descriptions of techniques that the authors have pioneer... read more

Ecological Restoration is owned by the Universityof Wisconsin Arboretum and is made available to SER members by special arrangement with the Arboretum. The journal features articles on a broad range of topics including technical, biological and social aspects of restoring landscapes, as well as emerging professional issues, the role of education, evolving theories ... read more

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For more information on policies, guidelines and definitions—or if you are interested in more information about SER’s Science & Policy Working Group, please contact Jim Harris, Chair.  Click here to download as a PDF file.   Policies 1 through 9 were published in Restoration Ecology1(3): 206-207, 1993.   Protection of Ecosystems ... read more

SER-IUCN:  Partnership for Ecological Restoration Worldwide In March 2003, a team from SER International traveled to Taman Negara, Malaysia, to meet with members of the World Conservation Union's (IUCN) Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM).  The purpose of this meeting was to determine how our two organizations can work together to benefit restoration efforts ... read more

Society for Ecological Restoration International: Guidelines for Developing and Managing Ecological Restoration Projects    Society for Ecological Restoration International Andre Clewell¹, John Rieger², and John Munro³ (2nd Edition, December 2005) copyright 2005   The SER Guidelines are available in English, Portuguese, and Italian.   Co... read more

The following NGOs, academic institutions, and government agencies have adopted the SER Primer's definition of ecological restoration: Ecological restoration is the process of assisting the recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged, or destroyed. Auckland Regional Council Bank of Natural Capital (Part of the TEEB Study) British... read more

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