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Understanding and Integrating Local Perceptions of Trees and Forests into Incentives for Sustainable Landscape Management
We examine five forested landscapes in Africa (Cameroon, Madagascar, and Tanzania) and Asia (Indonesia and Laos) at different stages of landscape change. In all five areas, forest cover (outside of protected areas) continues to decrease despite local people’s recognition of the importance of forest...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3142544/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21644016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00267-011-9689-1 |
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author | Pfund, Jean-Laurent Watts, John Daniel Boissière, Manuel Boucard, Amandine Bullock, Renee Marie Ekadinata, Andree Dewi, Sonya Feintrenie, Laurène Levang, Patrice Rantala, Salla Sheil, Douglas Sunderland, Terence Clarence Heethom Urech, Zora Lea |
author_facet | Pfund, Jean-Laurent Watts, John Daniel Boissière, Manuel Boucard, Amandine Bullock, Renee Marie Ekadinata, Andree Dewi, Sonya Feintrenie, Laurène Levang, Patrice Rantala, Salla Sheil, Douglas Sunderland, Terence Clarence Heethom Urech, Zora Lea |
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description | We examine five forested landscapes in Africa (Cameroon, Madagascar, and Tanzania) and Asia (Indonesia and Laos) at different stages of landscape change. In all five areas, forest cover (outside of protected areas) continues to decrease despite local people’s recognition of the importance of forest products and services. After forest conversion, agroforestry systems and fallows provide multiple functions and valued products, and retain significant biodiversity. But there are indications that such land use is transitory, with gradual simplification and loss of complex agroforests and fallows as land use becomes increasingly individualistic and profit driven. In Indonesia and Tanzania, farmers favor monocultures (rubber and oil palm, and sugarcane, respectively) for their high financial returns, with these systems replacing existing complex agroforests. In the study sites in Madagascar and Laos, investments in agroforests and new crops remain rare, despite government attempts to eradicate swidden systems and their multifunctional fallows. We discuss approaches to assessing local values related to landscape cover and associated goods and services. We highlight discrepancies between individual and collective responses in characterizing land use tendencies, and discuss the effects of accessibility on land management. We conclude that a combination of social, economic, and spatially explicit assessment methods is necessary to inform land use planning. Furthermore, any efforts to modify current trends will require clear incentives, such as through carbon finance. We speculate on the nature of such incentive schemes and the possibility of rewarding the provision of ecosystem services at a landscape scale and in a socially equitable manner. |
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spelling | pubmed-31425442011-09-08 Understanding and Integrating Local Perceptions of Trees and Forests into Incentives for Sustainable Landscape Management Pfund, Jean-Laurent Watts, John Daniel Boissière, Manuel Boucard, Amandine Bullock, Renee Marie Ekadinata, Andree Dewi, Sonya Feintrenie, Laurène Levang, Patrice Rantala, Salla Sheil, Douglas Sunderland, Terence Clarence Heethom Urech, Zora Lea Environ Manage Article We examine five forested landscapes in Africa (Cameroon, Madagascar, and Tanzania) and Asia (Indonesia and Laos) at different stages of landscape change. In all five areas, forest cover (outside of protected areas) continues to decrease despite local people’s recognition of the importance of forest products and services. After forest conversion, agroforestry systems and fallows provide multiple functions and valued products, and retain significant biodiversity. But there are indications that such land use is transitory, with gradual simplification and loss of complex agroforests and fallows as land use becomes increasingly individualistic and profit driven. In Indonesia and Tanzania, farmers favor monocultures (rubber and oil palm, and sugarcane, respectively) for their high financial returns, with these systems replacing existing complex agroforests. In the study sites in Madagascar and Laos, investments in agroforests and new crops remain rare, despite government attempts to eradicate swidden systems and their multifunctional fallows. We discuss approaches to assessing local values related to landscape cover and associated goods and services. We highlight discrepancies between individual and collective responses in characterizing land use tendencies, and discuss the effects of accessibility on land management. We conclude that a combination of social, economic, and spatially explicit assessment methods is necessary to inform land use planning. Furthermore, any efforts to modify current trends will require clear incentives, such as through carbon finance. We speculate on the nature of such incentive schemes and the possibility of rewarding the provision of ecosystem services at a landscape scale and in a socially equitable manner. Springer-Verlag 2011-06-05 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3142544/ /pubmed/21644016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00267-011-9689-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2011 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Article Pfund, Jean-Laurent Watts, John Daniel Boissière, Manuel Boucard, Amandine Bullock, Renee Marie Ekadinata, Andree Dewi, Sonya Feintrenie, Laurène Levang, Patrice Rantala, Salla Sheil, Douglas Sunderland, Terence Clarence Heethom Urech, Zora Lea Understanding and Integrating Local Perceptions of Trees and Forests into Incentives for Sustainable Landscape Management |
title | Understanding and Integrating Local Perceptions of Trees and Forests into Incentives for Sustainable Landscape Management |
title_full | Understanding and Integrating Local Perceptions of Trees and Forests into Incentives for Sustainable Landscape Management |
title_fullStr | Understanding and Integrating Local Perceptions of Trees and Forests into Incentives for Sustainable Landscape Management |
title_full_unstemmed | Understanding and Integrating Local Perceptions of Trees and Forests into Incentives for Sustainable Landscape Management |
title_short | Understanding and Integrating Local Perceptions of Trees and Forests into Incentives for Sustainable Landscape Management |
title_sort | understanding and integrating local perceptions of trees and forests into incentives for sustainable landscape management |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3142544/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21644016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00267-011-9689-1 |
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