This is a special issue of International Forestry Review on Forest Landscape Restoration in Hilly and Mountainous Regions. Complete list of articles are:

• Studies on forest landscape restoration in hilly and mountainous regions of Asia and Africa – an introduction to the Special Issue
• How do property rights reforms provide incentives for forest landscape restoration? Comparing evidence from Nepal, China and Ethiopia
• China’s Conversion of Cropland to Forest Program as a national PES scheme: Institutional structure, voluntarism and conditionality of PES
• Exclosures as forest and landscape restoration tools: lessons from Tigray Region, Ethiopia
• Shared strengths and limitations of participatory forest management and area exclosure: two major state led landscape rehabilitation mechanisms in Ethiopia
• Can forest stand alone? Barriers to the restoration of the last remaining rainforest in Assam, India
• From denuded to green mountains: process and motivating factors of forest landscape restoration in Phewa Lake watershed, Nepal
• Change in land use and ecosystem services delivery from community-based forest landscape restoration in the Phewa Lake watershed, Nepal
• Smallholders and forest landscape restoration in upland northern Thailand
• A segregated assessment of total carbon stocks by the mode of origin and ecological functions of forests: implication on restoration potential