Exploring Biological Diversity Environment And Local People S Perspectives In Forest Landscapes Methods For A Multidisciplinary Landscape Assessment

Author : Douglas Sheil,Rajindra K. Puri,Imam Basuki,Miriam van Heist,Meilinda Wan,Nining Liswanti,Rukmiyati,Mustofa Agung Sardjono,Ismayadi Samsoedin,Kade Sidiyasa,Chrisandini,Edi Permana,Eddy Mangopo Angi,Franz Gatzweiler,Brook Johnson,Akhmad Wijaya
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Biodiversity
ISBN : 9789798764882

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Exploring Biological Diversity, Environment, and Local People's Perspectives in Forest Landscapes: Methods for a Multidisciplinary Landscape Assessment by Douglas Sheil,Rajindra K. Puri,Imam Basuki,Miriam van Heist,Meilinda Wan,Nining Liswanti,Rukmiyati,Mustofa Agung Sardjono,Ismayadi Samsoedin,Kade Sidiyasa,Chrisandini,Edi Permana,Eddy Mangopo Angi,Franz Gatzweiler,Brook Johnson,Akhmad Wijaya Pdf

Operational overview. Villages and communities. Field sample selection. Village-based activities. First community meeting. Community landscape mapping. Selecting local informants. Community-based data collections. Field-based activities. Site, vegetation and trees. Plants and site - ethnoecological data. Soil assessment. Data control and management. Plant taxonomy and verification. Database. Conclusiones.

Author : Nining Liswanti,Imam Basuki
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9786028693073

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Guidelines for adapted Multidisciplinary Landscape Assessment methods for fire management projects in India by Nining Liswanti,Imam Basuki Pdf

Author : Helen Newing
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136934407

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Conducting Research in Conservation by Helen Newing Pdf

Conducting Research in Conservation is the first textbook on social science research methods written specifically for use in the expanding and increasingly multidisciplinary field of environmental conservation. The first section on planning a research project includes chapters on the need for social science research in conservation, defining a research topic, methodology, and sampling. Section two focuses on practical issues in carrying out fieldwork with local communities, from fieldwork preparation and data collection to the relationships between the researcher and the study community. Section three provides an in-depth focus on a range of social science methods including standard qualitative and quantitative methods such as participant observation, interviewing and questionnaires, and more advanced methods, such as ethnobiological methods for documenting local environmental knowledge and change, and participatory methods such as the ‘PRA’ toolbox. Section four then demonstrates how to analyze social science data qualitatively and quantitatively; and the final section outlines the writing-up process and what should happen after the end of the formal research project. This book is a comprehensive and accessible guide to social science research methods for students of conservation related subjects and practitioners trained in the natural sciences. It features practical worldwide examples of conservation-related research in different ecosystems such as forests; grasslands; marine and riverine systems; and farmland. Boxes provide definitions of key terms, practical tips, and brief narratives from students and practitioners describe the practical issues that they have faced in the field.

Author : Nigel Dudley,Rodolphe Schlaepfer,William Jackson,Jean-Paul Jeanrenaud,Sue Stolton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136565472

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Forest Quality by Nigel Dudley,Rodolphe Schlaepfer,William Jackson,Jean-Paul Jeanrenaud,Sue Stolton Pdf

Deforestation is frequently a topic of discussion in the environmental arena, but it is not just the number of trees that matters; the quality of the forest is also important. Even where the forest area is stable or increasing, there are often rapid changes in its character. Natural forests are being replaced by plantations or by intensively managed forests. Around the world, forests are becoming younger and less diverse, in both species and structure; this has important impacts for biodiversity and also affects many human values. In this groundbreaking text, forest quality is discussed as a useful new concept in forest conservation and management. Three main assessment criteria are used: authenticity; environmental benefits; and social and economic benefits. The book describes a methodology and protocol for collecting and analysing data, and outlines in detail the approach required with each indicator. The authors advocate a landscape approach to assessment and demonstrate how assessment works through a series of case studies that show how this approach can be used in many ways to help forest conservation management. This hands-on manual is for professionals involved in forestry, conservation and resource management worldwide, and contains case study material from Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America that demonstrates practical uses of the new 'landscape' approach to forest conservation. Published with IUCN and WWF

Author : Stewart Maginnis,Jeffrey A Sayer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136565397

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Forests in Landscapes by Stewart Maginnis,Jeffrey A Sayer Pdf

At last a really useful book telling us how all the rhetoric about ecosystem approaches and sustainable forest management is being translated into practical solutions on the ground CLAUDE MARTIN, WWF INTERNATIONAL For too long, foresters have seen forests as logs waiting to be turned into something useful. This book demonstrates that forests in fact have multiple values, and managing them as ecosystems will bring more benefits to a greater cross-section of the public JEFFREY A. MCNEELY, CHIEF SCIENTIST, IUCN This book demonstrates that [ecosystem approaches and sustainable forest management] are neither alternative methods of forest management nor are they simply complicated ways of saying the same thing. They are both emerging concepts for more integrated and holistic ways of managing forests within larger landscapes in ways that optimize benefits to all stakeholders ACHIM STEINER AND IAN JOHNSON, FROM THE FOREWORD Recent innovations in Sustainable Forest Management and Ecosystem Approaches are resulting in forests increasingly being managed as part of the broader social-ecological systems in which they exist. Forests in Landscapes reviews changes that have occurred in forest management in recent decades. Case studies from Europe, Canada, the United States, Russia, Australia, the Congo and Central America provide a wealth of international examples of innovative practices. Cross-cutting chapters examine the political ecology and economics of forest management, and review the information needs and the use and misuse of criteria and indicators to achieve broad societal goals for forests. A concluding chapter draws out the key lessons of changes in forest management in recent decades and sets out some thoughts for the future. This book is a must-read for practitioners, researchers and policy makers concerned with forests and land use. It contains lessons for all those concerned with forests as sources of people's livelihoods and as part of rural landscapes. Published with IUCN and PROFOR

Author : Tim Lynam
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Community development
ISBN : 9789792446500

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Livelihoods, Land Types, and the Importance of Ecosystem Goods and Services by Tim Lynam Pdf

Author : Carmenza Robledo,Markku Kanninen,Lucio Pedroni
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 9789792446043

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Tropical Forests and Adaptation to Climate Change by Carmenza Robledo,Markku Kanninen,Lucio Pedroni Pdf

Author : Jeffrey Sayer,Chris Margules
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-02
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : 9783038424543

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Biodiversity in Locally Managed Lands by Jeffrey Sayer,Chris Margules Pdf

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue 2Biodiversity in Locally Managed Lands" that was published in Land

Author : Niranjan Roy,Shubhadeep Roychoudhury,Sunil Nautiyal,Sunil K. Agarwal,Sangeeta Baksi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030324636

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Socio-economic and Eco-biological Dimensions in Resource use and Conservation by Niranjan Roy,Shubhadeep Roychoudhury,Sunil Nautiyal,Sunil K. Agarwal,Sangeeta Baksi Pdf

This book presents the outcomes of the 2017 national workshop and international conference organized by CEENR of ISEC, Bengaluru and Assam University Silchar. Addressing the threats to biodiversity and sustainable development resulting from the impacts of human induced pressures on ecosystems and global-warming-driven climate change is a major challenge. It requires increased knowledge and an enhanced information base in order to devise local policies to improve the adaptive capacity of vulnerable socio-ecological systems in developing countries. In this context, the book presents research that has the potential to benefit the environment and empower communities. It appeals to researchers investigating diverse aspects of socio-ecological-biological systems to create strategies for resource use, conservation and management to ensure sustainability.

Author : Edith Weihreter
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Traditional knowledge, perceptions and forest conditions in a Dayak Mentebah community, West Kalimantan, Indonesia by Edith Weihreter Pdf

This study aims to introduce the natural resource uses of Dayak Mentebah people of the village Nanga Dua, West Kalimantan. It is part of the project CoLUPSIA that focuses on reinforcing small stakeholder’s rights. Furthermore, ecological data are collected to support the protection of Indonesia’s species rich and vulnerable tropical forests, threatened through high deforestation rates. The local people’s perceptions about their environment and land uses were assessed using participatory survey techniques: focus group discussions, scoring exercises, free lists of species and participatory mapping. To further record the traditional practices a survey was conducted on medicinal plants. The ecological assessment was done through survey plots in different land use units, where tree diversity and diameter at breast height was measured. The inhabitants of Nanga Dua are dependent upon forest products for food, material for construction, basketry, etc. Medicinal plants are integral part of the health-care system. The traditional, shifting cultivation creates a diverse and mosaic-like patchwork of various types of forests, having different successional stages. Tree diversity in the land-use units was generally high, with the primary forest in immediate proximity acting as tree species reservoir.

Author : Boissiere, M.,Duchelle, A.E.,Atmadja, S.,Simonet, G.
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Technical guidelines for participatory village mapping exercise by Boissiere, M.,Duchelle, A.E.,Atmadja, S.,Simonet, G. Pdf

This document is meant for researchers, field research supervisors and enumerators who would like guidance on developing maps with the participation of local communities. It is part of the Global Comparative Study on REDD+ (GCS REDD+) conducted by CIFOR w

Author : Benno Pokorny
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781135105938

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Smallholders, Forest Management and Rural Development in the Amazon by Benno Pokorny Pdf

The ongoing debate concerning the Amazon's crucial role in global climate and biodiversity is entirely dependent upon sustainable development in the region. Recognizing that forests are an integral part of the social fabric in the region, initiatives such as community forestry, small-scale tree plantations and agroforestry, as well as payments for environmental services have aimed at conserving the natural forest landscape. At the same time these attempt to protect and enhance the well-being of poor local smallholders including indigenous groups, traditional communities and small farmers. Against this background, this book analyses numerous promising local tree and forest management initiatives taken by smallholders in the Bolivian, Brazilian, Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazon to better understand the key success factors. The insights gained from more than 100 case studies analyzed by researchers from Latin-America and Europe in cooperation with local stakeholders reveal the need for critical reflection on the initiatives targeting poor Amazonian families. The book discusses an operational vision of rural development grounded on the effective use of smallholders’ capacities to contribute to a sustainable and equitable development of the region. It provides helpful information and ideas not only for scientists, but also for development organisations, decision makers and all who are interested in one of the major challenges facing the Amazon: to combine equitable development with the conservation of its unique ecosystems.

Author : Ike Rachmatika,Robert Nasi,Douglas Sheil,Meilinda Wan
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : 9789793361673

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A First Look at the Fish Species of the Middle Malinau by Ike Rachmatika,Robert Nasi,Douglas Sheil,Meilinda Wan Pdf

Author : Agni Klintuni Boedhihartono
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Group problem solving
ISBN : 9782831714219

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Visualizing sustainable landscapes : understanding and negotiating conservation and development trade-offs using visual techniques by Agni Klintuni Boedhihartono Pdf

Author : Liswanti, N.,Shantiko, B.,Fripp, E.,Mwangi, E.,Laumonier, Y.
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9786028693899

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Practical guide for socio-economic livelihood, land tenure and rights surveys for use in collaborative ecosystem-based land use planning by Liswanti, N.,Shantiko, B.,Fripp, E.,Mwangi, E.,Laumonier, Y. Pdf