Approaches And Tools For Assessing Mountain Forest Ecosystem Services

Author : Baral, H.,Wanggi Jaung,Bhatta, L.D.,Phuntsho, S.,Sharma, S.,Paudyal, K.,Zarandian, A.,Sears, R.,Sharma, R.,Dorji, T.,Artati, Y.
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 21 pages
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Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Approaches and tools for assessing mountain forest ecosystem services by Baral, H.,Wanggi Jaung,Bhatta, L.D.,Phuntsho, S.,Sharma, S.,Paudyal, K.,Zarandian, A.,Sears, R.,Sharma, R.,Dorji, T.,Artati, Y. Pdf

Mountain forest ecosystems provide a wide range of direct and indirect contributions to the people who live in the mountains and surrounding areas. Occupying steep slopes at high elevation, these ecosystems provide services such as stabilizing slopes, regulating hydrological cycles, maintaining rich biodiversity and supporting the livelihoods of those who are diverse in culture but vulnerable to poverty and food security. This paper (i) reviews several tools for assessing the sociocultural, economic and ecological values of mountain forest ecosystem services, (ii) demonstrates case studies of tool applications from several countries namely, Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Iran and Nepal, and (iii) discusses assessment challenges that should be considered in the application of these tools. In Bhutan, an application of benefit transfer showed that the average total value of forest ecosystem services was over USD 14.5 billion per year. In India, an application of stakeholder and household analyses indicated that a total of 29 different ecosystem services are available and sustain livelihoods of local communities near the Maguri Mottapung wetland. In Indonesia, an application of Q methodology identified anticipated benefits and concerns of forest watershed stakeholders related to certification applications for a payment for ecosystem services. In Iran, an application of the Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Trade-offs Tool showed that the regulation of ecosystem services has been declining in Hyrcanian forests despite the forests’ critical roles in the region. In Nepal, an application of a spatial analytical approach and participatory assessment techniques identified key mountain ecosystem services for community forests at the Charnawolti sub-watershed of Dolakha, and demonstrated forest restoration on degraded lands over the last two decades. Several challenges exist for the assessment of mountain forest ecosystem services and these must be reflected in assessment design. These challenges include the complexity of defining and classifying ecosystem services; limited availability of data on ecosystem services; uncertainties associated with climate change; complex relationships among services including trade-offs and synergies; and limitation of assessments to build successful payments for ecosystem services.

Author : Himlal Baral
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1091749910

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Approaches and Tools for Assessing Mountain Forest Ecosystem Services by Himlal Baral Pdf

Author : David L. Adams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351465526

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Assessing Forest Ecosystem Health in the Inland West by David L. Adams Pdf

Inland West, their historical origins, assessments of available management tools, and analyses of the various choices available to policymakers. Its goal is to help people understand the Inland West forests so that public policies can reflect a constructive and realistic framework in which forests can be managed for sustained health. This resource is the product of a scientific workshop where 35 participants, including scientists, resource managers, administrators, and environmentalists, addressed the forest health problem in the Inland West. Synthesis chapters integrate the diverse knowledge and experience which participants brought to the workshop. They identify and link together many of the ecological, social, and administrative conditions which have created the forest health problem in the West. The book is unique in that it reflects a process that fostered the use of academic research, field realities, and industrial knowledge to define an interdisciplinary problem, establish rational policy objectives, and set-up “do-able” management approaches. The following topics are analyzed: Assessing forest ecosystem health in the Inland West Historical and anticipated changes in forest ecosystems in the Inland West Defining and measuring forest health Historical range of variability as a tool for evaluating ecosystem change Administrative barriers to implementing forest health problems Economic and social dimensions of the forest health problem Fire management Ecosystem and landscape management

Author : Ajith H. Perera,Urmas Peterson,Guillermo Martínez Pastur,Louis R. Iverson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319745152

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Ecosystem Services from Forest Landscapes by Ajith H. Perera,Urmas Peterson,Guillermo Martínez Pastur,Louis R. Iverson Pdf

Over the last two decades, the topic of forest ecosystem services has attracted the attention of researchers, land managers, and policy makers around the globe. The services rendered by forest ecosystems range from intrinsic to anthropocentric benefits that are typically grouped as provisioning, regulating, supporting, and cultural. The research efforts, assessments, and attempts to manage forest ecosystems for their sustained services are now widely published in scientific literature. This volume focuses on broad-scale aspects of forest ecosystem services, beyond individual stands to large landscapes. In doing so, it illustrates the conceptual and practical opportunities as well as challenges involved with planning for forest ecosystem services across landscapes, regions, and nations. The goal here is to broaden the scope of land use planning through the adoption of a landscape-scale approach. Even though this approach is complex and involves multiple ecological, social, cultural, economic, and political dimensions, the landscape perspective appears to offer the best opportunity for a sustained provision of forest ecosystem services.

Author : Paudyal, K.,Adhikari, S.,Sharma, S.,Samsudin, Y.B.,Paudyal, B.R.,Bhandari, A.,Birhane, E.,Darcha, G.,Trinh, T.L.,Baral, H.
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Framework for assessing ecosystem services from bamboo forests by Paudyal, K.,Adhikari, S.,Sharma, S.,Samsudin, Y.B.,Paudyal, B.R.,Bhandari, A.,Birhane, E.,Darcha, G.,Trinh, T.L.,Baral, H. Pdf

Bamboo is well known for supporting people’s livelihoods, and is widely used in landscape restoration programs while providing a wide range of ecosystem goods and services. However, while marketable goods from bamboo such as shoots for food and timber for construction, flooring and furniture are well known, the ecosystem services (ES) supply from bamboo is not, due to limited research. To date, very few studies highlight the role of bamboo forests in providing multiple ES that have local and global value. Lack of an appropriate framework and tools is considered a barrier to assessing the ES from bamboo forests. Therefore, this study attempts to develop an easy-to-apply framework to assess ES from bamboo and test them in three countries in Asia and Africa – Nepal, Indonesia and Ethiopia – in order to understand the relative supply capacity of the key ES from bamboo forests. The literature related to ES and assessment frameworks was reviewed so as to design an appropriate assessment framework for bamboo forests. This study offers an easy-to-apply framework that can be used widely. The research shows that the ES supply capacity of bamboo forests is higher than for industrial planted forest while it is lower than for the natural forests in all case study sites. The ES assessment from bamboo forests poses several challenges: defining and classifying ES, limited data, and complex relationships in trade-offs and synergies of ES that should be kept in mind while designing the framework.

Author : Wangchuk, J.,Choden, K.,Sears, R.R.,Baral, H.
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Ecosystem Services from Forest Management Units in Eastern and Central Bhutan by Wangchuk, J.,Choden, K.,Sears, R.R.,Baral, H. Pdf

Forest Management Units (FMU) are areas of state forest that are designated for commercial timber harvest. They also serve subsistence needs for neighboring villages, but there has to date been no assessment of these services for local people. Neither has

Author : CIFOR
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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SLANT Bhutan by CIFOR Pdf

Mountain forest ecosystems provide a wide range of direct and indirect benefits to the people who live in the mountains and downstream. Occupying steep slopes at high elevation, Bhutan’s forest ecosystems provide services such as slope stabilization, regu

Author : Forest Service (U.S.)
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0160943604

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Trees at Work by Forest Service (U.S.) Pdf

This guide showcases the increasing interest in ecosystem services, discusses the motivations for valuations of FES (forest ecosystem services) at the State level, and places this work in the context of economic accounting. Readers may be interested in this report to expand their understanding of approaches used and value forest ecosystem services. However, the intended target audience for this report is State forestry officials charged with requesting, selecting, guiding, and evaluating the results of FES assessments in their states. Foresters, construction officials utilizing forest based products, educators, instructors and students in the fields of environmental science and forestry, environmentalists, and investors in the forest products category may also be interested in this work. Check out our Environment & Nature resources collection here:https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/environment-nature Trees & Forests collection here:https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/environment-nature Water Management collection here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/water-management

Author : Domingo Alcaraz-Segura,Carlos Marcelo Di Bella,Julieta Veronica Straschnoy
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781466505889

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Earth Observation of Ecosystem Services by Domingo Alcaraz-Segura,Carlos Marcelo Di Bella,Julieta Veronica Straschnoy Pdf

A balanced review of differing approaches based on remote sensing tools and methods to assess and monitor biodiversity, carbon and water cycles, and the energy balance of terrestrial ecosystem. Earth Observation of Ecosystem Services highlights the advantages Earth observation technologies offer for quantifying and monitoring multiple ecosystem functions and services. It provides a multidisciplinary reference that expressly covers the use of remote sensing for quantifying and monitoring multiple ecosystem services. Rather than exhaustively cover all possible ecosystem services, this book takes a global look at the most relevant remote sensing approaches to estimate key ecosystem services from satellite data. Structured in four main sections, it covers carbon cycle, biodiversity, water cycle, and energy balance. Each section contains a review of conceptual and empirical methods, techniques, and case studies linking remotely sensed data to the biophysical variables and ecosystem functions associated with key ecosystem services. The book identifies relevant issues and challenges of assessment, presents cutting-edge sensing techniques, uses globally implemented tools to quantify ecosystem functions, and presents examples of successful monitoring programs. Covering recent developments undertaken on the global and national stage from Earth observation satellite data, it includes valuable lessons and recommendations and novel ways to improve current global monitoring systems. The book delineates the use of Earth observation data so that it can be used to quantify, map, value, and manage the valuable goods and services that ecosystems provide to societies around the world.

Author : Robert A. Smail
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781437928310

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Forest Land Conversion, Ecosystem Services, and Economic Issues for Policy by Robert A. Smail Pdf

The continued conversion and development of forest land pose a serious threat to the ecosystem services derived from forested landscapes. There are unavoidable challenges involved in quantifying the threats from forest conversion and their related costs to human well-being: (1) most attempts to quantify the costs of forest conversion on ecosystem services will necessarily rely on specific ecological science that is often emerging, changing, or simply nonexistent; (2) given the interconnected nature of ecosystem products and processes, any attempt to quantify the effects of forest conversion must grapple with jointness in production; (3) the ecology and the human dimensions of ecosystems are highly specific to spatial-temporal circumstances.

Author : Roberto Tognetti,Melanie Smith,Pietro Panzacchi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030807672

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Climate-Smart Forestry in Mountain Regions by Roberto Tognetti,Melanie Smith,Pietro Panzacchi Pdf

This open access book offers a cross-sectoral reference for both managers and scientists interested in climate-smart forestry, focusing on mountain regions. It provides a comprehensive analysis on forest issues, facilitating the implementation of climate objectives. This book includes structured summaries of each chapter. Funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme, CLIMO has brought together scientists and experts in continental and regional focus assessments through a cross-sectoral approach, facilitating the implementation of climate objectives. CLIMO has provided scientific analysis on issues including criteria and indicators, growth dynamics, management prescriptions, long-term perspectives, monitoring technologies, economic impacts, and governance tools.

Author : Forest Ecosystem Management Assessment Team (U.S.).
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Forest ecology
ISBN : MINN:31951D002820601

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Excerpts from Forest Ecosystem Management by Forest Ecosystem Management Assessment Team (U.S.). Pdf

Author : Cathy W. Dahms
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Forest ecology
ISBN : MINN:31951D03001157T

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An Assessment of Forest Ecosystem Health in the Southwest by Cathy W. Dahms Pdf

This report documents an ecological assessment of forest ecosystem health in the Southwest. The assessment focuses at the regional level and mostly pertains to lands administered by the National Forest System. Information is presented for use by forest and district resource managers as well as collaborative partners in the stewardship of Southwestern forests. The report establishes a scientific basis for conducting forest health projects, provides a context for planning ecosystem restoration, and contributes to the understanding of the physical, biological, and human dimensions of these ecosystems. Chapters describe Southwestern forest ecosystems of the past, changes since the Colonial Period, and the implications of those changes for the health of current and future forests. Opportunities, tools, and research needs for improving ecosystem sustainability are also identified.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Ecosystem management
ISBN : MINN:31951D02974922C

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Eastside Forest Ecosystem Health Assessment by Anonim Pdf

Author : Egan, Paul A.,Price, Martin F.
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789231002250

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Mountain ecosystem services and climate change by Egan, Paul A.,Price, Martin F. Pdf