Forest Policy and Economics,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
131, P. 102567 - 102567
Published: Aug. 12, 2021
We
are
living
in
a
time
of
crisis
on
planet
Earth.
Urgent
calls
for
transformational
change
getting
louder.
Technical
solutions
have
an
important
role
to
play
addressing
pressing
global
challenges,
but
alone
they
not
enough.
After
all,
who
decides
what
kind
transformation
is
needed,
what,
and
whom?
What
principles
guide
those
decisions,
how
decision-makers
held
accountable?
This
commentary
article
argues
that
these
governance
questions
central
any
solution,
order
simultaneously
address
the
planetary
crises
forest
biodiversity
loss
degradation
growing
inequality.
To
this
end,
we
examine
forests
around
trees,
landscapes
farms,
through
lens
power
social
justice.
For
applied
research
aimed
at
actionable
problems,
propose
agenda
next
decade
both
transformative
just.
Systems,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
11(2), P. 70 - 70
Published: Jan. 29, 2023
Today’s
challenges
to
sustainability
are
explored
through
a
complex
combination
of
interdisciplinary
topics
that
explore
various
interactions
between
economic,
social,
and
environmental
systems
further
contribute
existing
uncertainties.
Solving
complex/dynamic
constraints
does
not
demand
exclusively
technical
practical
methods,
as
it
is
equally
important
have
profound
conceptual
understanding
the
origins
such
challenges.
The
purpose
this
study
was
investigate
sustainable
development
process
from
perspective
philosophy
grey
theory
(GST).
GST
considers
inherent
defects
shortcomings
in
human
understanding/knowledge
identifies
roots
uncertainty.
concentrates
on
process,
highlighting
ways
which
explains
causes
sources
uncertainty
process.
It
emphasized
cannot
be
achieved
without
intentional
intervention,
international
collaboration
vital
solving
problems.
Uncertainty
stem
knowledge.
This
problem
makes
difficult
for
humans
understand
model
dynamicity,
strike
balance
different
spheres
science,
an
objective
view
reality
due
dependence
knowledge
thinking
paradigms
values.
These
ultimately
bring
about
value
conflicts,
understandings
risks,
impediments
agreement.
Finally,
arises
incomplete
knowledge,
undermines
prediction
outcomes.
Furthermore,
delays
impacts
diverse
world
increase
complicate
decision-
policymaking
improvement
projects.
In
their
efforts
implement
decisions
policies,
also
encounter
limitations
terms
capacities,
resources,
facilities.
application
GST-based
approaches
operational
area
discussed.
Land,
Journal Year:
2020,
Volume and Issue:
9(8), P. 251 - 251
Published: July 29, 2020
Restoration
depends
on
purpose
and
context.
At
the
core
it
entails
innovation
to
halt
ongoing
reverse
past
degradation.
It
aims
for
increased
functionality,
not
necessarily
recovering
system
states.
Location-specific
interventions
in
social-ecological
systems
reducing
proximate
pressures,
need
synergize
with
transforming
generic
drivers
of
unsustainable
land
use.
After
reviewing
pantropical
international
research
forests,
trees,
agroforestry,
we
developed
an
options-by-context
typology.
Four
intensities
restoration
interact:
R.I.
Ecological
intensification
within
a
use
system,
R.II.
Recovery/regeneration,
local
R.III.
Reparation/recuperation,
requiring
national
policy
context,
R.IV.
Remediation,
support
investment.
Relevant
start
from
values
human
identity
while
addressing
five
potential
bottlenecks:
Rights,
Know-how,
Markets
(inputs,
outputs,
credit),
Local
Ecosystem
Services
(including
water,
agrobiodiversity,
micro/mesoclimate)
Teleconnections
(global
climate
change,
biodiversity).
Six
stages
forest
transition
(from
closed
old-growth
open-field
agriculture
re-treed
(peri)urban
landscapes)
can
contextualize
interventions,
six
special
places:
water
towers,
riparian
zone
wetlands,
peat
landscapes,
small
islands
mangroves,
transport
infrastructure,
mining
scars.
The
typology
help
link
knowledge
action
people-centric
which
external
stakeholders
coinvest,
reflecting
shared
responsibility
historical
degradation
benefits
environmental
stewardship.
Sustainability,
Journal Year:
2020,
Volume and Issue:
12(17), P. 7010 - 7010
Published: Aug. 27, 2020
This
paper
reviews
the
design
of
international
forest
governance
and
policy,
analyses
its
impacts
in
addressing
deforestation
degradation
as
global
sustainability
issues.
Informed
by
literatures
on
relations,
regulatory
commodity
production,
pathways
domestic
influence,
key
arrangements
are
aggregated
into
six
types,
mapped
terms
their
main
aims,
instruments,
implementation
mechanisms.
Key
analytical
dimensions,
such
actors
involved
(state–private–mixed),
character
legal
authority
(legally
binding–non-legally
binding),
geopolitical
scope
(global–transnational)
helped
to
identify
potential
limitations
arrangements.
They
were
assessed
compared
influence
hard-law
rules,
cross-sectoral
policy
integration,
non-legally
binding
norms
discourses,
market
mechanisms,
direct
access
through
capacity
building.
Our
results
reveal
important
challenges
implementation,
arrangements,
including
major
inconsistencies
with
forest-adverse
economic
sectors.
We
conclude
about
need
for
coherent
forest-related
cooperation
integrative
actions
agriculture,
bioenergy,
mining
enhance
prospects
achieving
UN
2030
Sustainable
Development
Goals.
