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Does One Size Fit All? Heterogeneity in the Valuation of Community Forestry Programs?

Reports & Research
February, 2016
Global
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
community forestry
forestry
Through the implementation of a choice experiment valuation exercise, this study set out to identify the set of community plantation attributes that impact the welfare of potential community forestry program participants. We employed a combination of choice models to evaluate the preferences, welfare impacts and choice elasticities associated with alternative community forestry programs, allowing for different assumptions regarding heterogeneity.
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Land recycling in Europe. Approaches to measuring extent and impacts

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2016
Global
Forest Landscape Restoration
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land restoration
Land take, or the change from non-artificial to artificial land cover, reflects on-going and often conflicting claims on land. Some of the land that is 'taken' for urban development is covered with an impervious surface, which severely hampers ecosystem functioning and the related delivery of ecosystem services.
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Informing Future Interventions for Scaling-up Sustainable Land Management.

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2016
Global
Forest Landscape Restoration
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land restoration
sustainable land management
The review was conducted with the aim to provide guidance for future engagement / investments, in particular in the context of recent AU declarations on agriculture and on land restoration by NEPAD, GEF, TerrAfrica, the Great Green Wall Initiative for the Sahel and Sahara (GGWISS), UN agencies and other donors.
This paper provides an abridged summary of the findings for easier access by country policy / decision
makers, agencies, development partners and donors, as a basis for informing future interventions for scaling-
up sustainable land management (SLM).
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Making sense of research for sustainable land management

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2016
Global
Forest Landscape Restoration
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
land restoration
sustainable land management
Land is of multi-dimensional character. It is multi-scale, multi-functional, multi-sectorial, multi-actor based: it needs people from practice and research to interact as equal partners to make sense of research for sustainable land management. The kind of research needed to deal with this complexity and these challenges we term implementation-oriented research. With its many practical examples, this book explores alternatives to the often perceived ‘either – or’ choice between agricultural intensification on the one hand, and expansion of arable land on the other.
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Land degradation neutrality ( in The Mediterranean region under climate change : a scientific update)

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2016
Global
Forest Landscape Restoration
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
land degradation
land restoration
This chapter sets out to present a short review of (i) the general context of land degradation under the framework of UNCCD – the international convention on desertification with a specific focus on Land Degradation Neutrality, and (ii) examples of the main processes responsible for soil degradation (e.g. surface crusting, runoff and water erosion, tillage erosion, wind erosion, and salinization), along with the principles of desertification control and land rehabilitation, in light of the socioeconomic context and ecological conditions and processes.
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Estimating the Economic Impacts of Ecosystem Restoration—Methods and Case Studies

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2016
Global
Forest Landscape Restoration
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land management
land restoration
Federal investments in ecosystem restoration projects protect Federal trusts, ensure public health and safety, and preserve and enhance essential ecosystem services. These investments also generate business activity and create jobs. It is important for restoration practitioners to be able to quantify the economic impacts of individual restoration projects in order to communicate the contribution of these activities to local and national stakeholders.
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Who are forest-dependent people? A taxo nomy to aid livelihood and land use decision-making in forested regions

Land Use Policy Volume 57

Peer-reviewed publication
November, 2016
Global
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
development
forestry
land use
research
The relationship between forests and people is of substantial interest to peoples and agencies that govern and use them, private sector actors that seek to manage and profit from them, NGOs who support and implement conservation and development projects, and researchers who study these relationships and others. The term ⿿forest-dependent people⿿ is widely used to describe human populations that gain some form of benefits from forests.
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Mapping properties to monitor forests: Landholder response to a large environmental registration program in the Brazilian Amazon

Land Use Policy Volume 57

Peer-reviewed publication
November, 2016
Global
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
deforestation
environment
land tenure
land tenure systems
land use
research
Across the tropics, development banks and conservation donors are investing millions in property mapping and registration projects to improve accountability for deforestation. An evaluation of the effectiveness and accuracy of existing environmental registries is crucial to assure the success of future efforts. This study presents an evaluation of deforestation and registration behavior in response to one of the largest of these property registration programs to date — the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR) in the Amazonian state of Pará.
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Forests and climate change after Paris - An Asia-Pacific perspective

Institutional & promotional materials
May, 2016
Global
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
forestry
The 21st Conference of Parties (COP 21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was held in Paris, France, 30 November to 11 December 2015. COP 21 and the resulting Paris Agreement have been seen by many as a turning point in international climate negotiations. Their implications have been particularly significant in the context of forests. In view of this, forest sector stakeholders in Asia and the Pacific require succinct and accurate information on the outcomes of COP 21 and the Paris Agreement.
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Appropriate Small-scale Forest Harvesting Technologies for Southeast Asia: A Guidebook for Southeast Asia

Training Resources & Tools
February, 2016
Global, South-Eastern Asia
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
agroforestry systems
forest management plans
This guidebook - accompained by a series of factsheets - on appropriate harvesting and transport technologies highlights the available options to local communities that can help them realize their greater share in the primary stages of timber and bamboo-based value chains. Scroll down to download the factsheets.