Constraints to agroforestry diffusion under the Billion Trees Afforestation Project (BTAP), Pakistan: policy recommendations for 10-BTAP DOI Creative Commons
Ayat Ullah, Alam Zeb, Shahab E. Saqib

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Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 29(45), P. 68757 - 68775

Published: May 12, 2022

Effective agroforestry diffusion under the newly started 10-Billion Trees Afforestation Project (10-BTAP) needs a thorough understanding of policy and implementation shortfalls already completed BTAP. This study examines factors that affected in Hindu-Kush Himalayan (HKH) region Pakistan The data were gathered through in-depth interviews with Village Development Committee (VDC) members, Forest Department (FD) officials, local farmers. Important positively affecting included locations crop fields on river sides, community dependency firewood, market value timber. logistic regression model shows household head's age, access to information, area cropland level adoption BTAP; forest cover was negatively related. In-depth show key barriers FD provision false information by farmers monitoring teams, non-availability extension staff, lack communication among project staff community, as well sufficient budget for activities. Primary no participation VDCs planning programs, plant need assessments part poor quality plants distributed FD, farmers' know-how plantations, trust waste farming community. Thus, this recommends policy-makers designers should consider these when 10-BTAP improve its success.

Language: Английский

Global forest restoration and the importance of prioritizing local communities DOI
James T. Erbaugh, Nabin Pradhan, James L. Adams

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Nature Ecology & Evolution, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 4(11), P. 1472 - 1476

Published: Aug. 24, 2020

Language: Английский

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How feasible are global forest restoration commitments? DOI Creative Commons
Matthew E. Fagan, J. Leighton Reid, Margaret B. Holland

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Conservation Letters, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 13(3)

Published: Jan. 16, 2020

Abstract Numerous countries have made voluntary commitments to conduct forest landscape restoration over millions of hectares degraded land in the coming decade. We consider relative likelihood these will achieve their commitments. Across countries, area committed increased with existing and plantation area, but was inversely related development status, less developed pledging more area. Restoration are generally large (median: 2 million hectares) be challenging meet without wholesale transformation food production systems. Indeed, one third >10% (maximum: 81%). Furthermore, high rates cover change may reverse gains: a quarter experienced recent deforestation agricultural expansion that exceeded commitment The limited progress reported by sheer scale commitments, raises serious questions about long‐term success, especially absent necessary monitoring management plans.

Language: Английский

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Nation-wide mapping of tree-level aboveground carbon stocks in Rwanda DOI Creative Commons
Maurice Mugabowindekwe, Martin Brandt, Jérôme Chave

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Nature Climate Change, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 13(1), P. 91 - 97

Published: Dec. 22, 2022

Abstract Trees sustain livelihoods and mitigate climate change but a predominance of trees outside forests limited resources make it difficult for many tropical countries to conduct automated nation-wide inventories. Here, we propose an approach map the carbon stock each individual overstory tree at national scale Rwanda using aerial imagery from 2008 deep learning. We show that 72% mapped are located in farmlands savannas 17% plantations, accounting 48.6% aboveground stocks. Natural cover 11% total count 51.4% stocks, with overall uncertainty 16.9%. The mapping all allows partitioning any landscapes classification is urgently needed effective planning monitoring restoration activities as well optimization sequestration, biodiversity economic benefits trees.

Language: Английский

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Forest Landscape Restoration—What Generates Failure and Success? DOI Open Access
M. Höhl, Vianny Ahimbisibwe, John A. Stanturf

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Forests, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 11(9), P. 938 - 938

Published: Aug. 27, 2020

Research Highlights: The global Forest Landscape Restoration ambitions could be impaired by projects that ignore key principles such as the engagement of local communities in decision making and implementation, equitable benefit sharing, monitoring for adaptive management. This entails danger continued degradation, disappointed stakeholders, ultimately, project failure. Other face technical problems related to tree establishment nursery production. Background Objectives: There are high hopes regain ecosystem integrity enhance human well-being deforested degraded areas. We highlight various success factors experienced during implementation on a scale. Materials Methods: use data from online survey identify common obstacles forest restoration. Results: While majority respondents reported successful projects, others indicate drastic failed projects. Major restoration were lack stakeholder involvement mismatch between goals managers, well environmental, anthropogenic, barriers regeneration. Conclusions: When communities, their goals, needs disregarded planning cases our limited available literature, there is risk Failed discouraged funders policy-makers, lessen momentum ambitions. Adhering can promote much-needed community support, with potential overcome regeneration enable protection, management, restored forests beyond funding periods. needed gain better understanding perception towards activities. Further studies at intersection environmental factors, socioeconomic conditions, regeneration/silviculture, production needed.

Language: Английский

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Natural Disturbance-Based Forest Management: Moving Beyond Retention and Continuous-Cover Forestry DOI Creative Commons
Timo Kuuluvainen, Per Angelstam, Lee E. Frelich

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Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 4

Published: April 9, 2021

Global forest area is declining rapidly, along with degradation of the ecological condition remaining forests. Hence it necessary to adopt management approaches that can achieve a balance between (1) human designs based on homogenization structure efficiently deliver economic values and (2) naturally emerging self-organized ecosystem dynamics foster heterogeneity, biodiversity, resilience adaptive capacity. Natural disturbance-based suggested provide such an approach. It grounded premise disturbance key process maintaining diversity structures, species functions, evolutionary potential, which functionally link sustainability services supporting well-being. We review development, foundations applications natural management. With emphasis boreal forests, we compare this approach two mainstream sustainable management, retention continuous-cover forestry. Compared these approaches, provides more comprehensive framework, compatible current understanding multiple-scale processes underlie potential ecosystems. conclude ecosystem-based framework for managing forests needs commodity production immaterial values, while health in rapidly changing global environment.

Language: Английский

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Forest landscape restoration: state of play DOI Creative Commons
John A. Stanturf, Stéphanie Mansourian

Royal Society Open Science, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 7(12), P. 201218 - 201218

Published: Dec. 1, 2020

Tree planting has been widely touted as an inexpensive way to meet multiple international environmental goals for mitigating climate change, reversing landscape degradation and restoring biodiversity restoration. The Bonn Challenge New York Declaration on Forests, motivated by widespread deforestation forest degradation, call 350 million ha 2030 relying restoration (FLR) processes. Because the 173 commitments made 63 nations, regions companies are not legally binding, expectations of what FLR means lacks consensus. frequent disconnect between top-level aspirations on-the-ground implementation results in limited data activities. Additionally, some countries have landscape-scale outside Challenge. We compared contrasted theory practice compiled information from databases projects initiatives case studies. present main happening across regional groups; many regions, potential need/opportunity exceeds activities underway. Multiple objectives can be met manipulating vegetation (increasing structural complexity, changing species composition natural disturbances). Livelihood interventions context-specific but include collecting or raising non-timber products, employment community forests; other address tenure governance.

Language: Английский

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Grasslands and savannahs in the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration DOI
Nigel Dudley, Luca Eufemia,

Martina Fleckenstein

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Restoration Ecology, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 28(6), P. 1313 - 1317

Published: Aug. 21, 2020

Grasslands and savannahs are suffering heavy losses from degradation conversion. The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration offers important opportunities to address these through a range of restoration techniques. However, if poorly planned, the could undermine some remaining natural semi‐natural grassland savannah ecosystems by encouraging afforestation areas, thus acting as perverse incentive. This article outlines main issues steps needed ensure that creates positive outcomes for highly biodiverse ecosystems: (1) better understanding status trends in degraded converted grasslands savannahs; (2) making case at both national international levels; (3) ensuring post‐2020 biodiversity conservation targets all ecosystems; (4) improving selection tools avoid displacing valuable (5) identifying successful approaches ecological, cultural, social needs.

Language: Английский

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Key challenges for governing forest and landscape restoration across different contexts DOI Creative Commons
Robin L. Chazdon, Sarah Jane Wilson,

Eduardo S. Brondízio

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Land Use Policy, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 104, P. 104854 - 104854

Published: July 2, 2020

Language: Английский

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Tropical Forest Landscape Restoration in Indonesia: A Review DOI Creative Commons
Yonky Indrajaya, Tri Wira Yuwati, Sri Lestari

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Land, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 11(3), P. 328 - 328

Published: Feb. 23, 2022

Indonesia has the second-largest biodiversity of any country in world. Deforestation and forest degradation have caused a range environmental issues, including habitat loss biodiversity, deterioration water quality quantity, air pollution, increased greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change. Forest restoration at landscape level been conducted balance ecological integrity human well-being. efforts are also aimed reducing CO2 closely related Indonesia’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) from forestry sector. The purpose this paper is examine regulatory, institutional, policy aspects Indonesia, as well implementation activities country. article was written using synoptic review approach Landscape Restoration (FLR)-related articles national experiences. Failures, success stories, criteria indicators for all discussed. We discuss latest silvicultural techniques program. governance focused on wetland ecosystem such peatlands mangroves, but due severely degraded condition many forests, government by necessity opted active involving planting establishment livelihood options. adapted its early focus more restoration, which recognizes local community critical restoration.

Language: Английский

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Deforestation and Forests Degradation Impacts on the Environment DOI
Rahul Kumar, Amit Kumar, Purabi Saikia

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Water science and technology library, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 19 - 46

Published: Jan. 1, 2022

Language: Английский

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