Ecosystem restoration and human well-being in Latin America

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Figure 1. An schematic chronology of concepts, ideas, and topics (underlined) relating to ecosystem restoration and human well-being since the consolidation of ecological restoration as a discipline. References out of the box are examples of the topics represented among the different decades.

Table 1. Summarised information on the three mains questions of the special issue in each paper.

Paper	Country	Description	The contribution of ecosystem restoration to human well-being	Inclusion of marginalised actors	The enablers and constraints to bolster the link between restoration and human well-being
Carrasco Henríquez and Mendoza Leal (2021)	Chile	Restoration initiatives as a form of re-communalization, involving distinct paradigms of nature.	Recovering cultural identity and social capital.	Organising women to plan and implement restoration.	Existent social capital in local communities helps to produce well-being. Constraints in the local-private dialogue and their different languages.
Farinaccio et al. (2021)	Argentina	Social assessment of native flora of drylands and its implications for ecological restoration of desertified areas.	Recovering traditional knowledge and culture. Recovering ecosystem productivity.	Local community participation	Cultural and knowledge erosion discourages local people. Promoting a restoration program embracing historical knowledge and collective learning to recover social capital.
Gómez-Ruiz et al. (2022)	Mexico	Restoring the human-ecosystem link in Mexican mangroves.	Closely involving local communities in all phases of the restoration processes and building legitimacy.	Local community participation	The permanent social participation in decision-making and implementation strengthen legitimacy. Constraints in terms of ecological success.
Cotroneo et al. (2021)	Argentina	Reconstruction of historical processes leading to social-ecological collapse or recovery	Restoring native forests increases adaptive capacity to cope with external stressors	Local community participation	Local knowledge and social capital as enablers, and external pressure and lack of government support as constraints
Aguiar et al. (2021)	Argentina	Perspectives on the Latin American context in terms of how we practice and evaluate the benefits of ecological restoration for well-being.	Through building transformative governance that can respond to, manage, and trigger regime shifts in coupled socio-ecological systems at multiple scales	By using approaches and instruments that promote innovative governance systems	Not constraints but four challenges related to the specific Latin American socio-ecological systems. Reinforce the link through bolstering effectiveness, social equity, transparency, and legitimacy of restoration interventions.

Carrasco Henríquez N, Mendoza Leal C. 2021. Restoration as a re-commoning process. Territorial initiative and global conditions in the process of water recovery in the ‘Cordillera de Nahuelbuta. Chile, Ecosystems and People. 17:556–573. doi:10.1080/26395916.2021.1993345.

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Farinaccio FM, Ceccon E, Pérez DR. 2021. Starting points for the restoration of desertified drylands: puesteros’ cultural values in the use of native flora. Ecosystems and People. 17:476–490. doi:10.1080/26395916.2021.1968035.

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Gómez-Ruiz PA, Betancourth-Buitrago RA, Arteaga-Cote M, Carbajal-Borges JP, Teutli-Hernández C, Laffon-Leal S. 2022. Fostering a participatory process for ecological restoration of mangroves in pantanos de centla biosphere reserve (Tabasco, Mexico). Ecosystems and People. 18:112–118. doi:10.1080/26395916.2022.2032358.

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Cotroneo SM, Jacobo EJ, Brassiolo MM. 2021. Degradation processes and adaptive strategies in communal forests of Argentine dry Chaco. Integrating Stakeholder Knowledge and Perceptions, Ecosystems and People. 17:507–522. doi:10.1080/26395916.2021.1972042.

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Aguiar S, Mastrángelo ME, Brancalion PH, Meli P. 2021. Transformative governance for linking forest and landscape restoration to human well-being in Latin America. Ecosystem and People. 17:523–538. doi:10.1080/26395916.2021.1976838.

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