Recognising the challenge of implementing high-level targets and initiatives like the Bonn Challenge, the New York Declaration and Land Degradation Neutrality, and realising that obtaining results on the ground will confront many context-specific questions, a team of scientists from relevant IUFRO units has prepared this practitioner's guide to Implementing Forest Landscape Restoration. The guide follows from, and builds upon the IUFRO World Series "Forest Landscape Restoration as a Key Component of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation". This guide addresses FLR implementation as a whole but with a view toward climate change mitigation and adaptation; only if the landscape is changing and FLR is successful will climate benefits materialise.

The guide is comprised of separate modules that address important aspects of FLR implementation. Underlying the approach to FLR implementation is the concept of project cycle management that takes users on a systematic path from the initial project idea to measurable results in the landscape. Each module gives details on important aspects of the journey from broad FLR policy to local implementation activities, including getting started with FLR implementation, governance, FLR project design, implementation activities, monitoring and evaluation, climate change mitigation and adaptation methods, and communication.