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A local perspective on drivers and measures to slow deforestation in the Andean-Amazonian foothills of Colombia

Land Use Policy Volume 77

Peer-reviewed publication
September, 2018
Colombia
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
deforestation
environment
land use
research
sustainable land management
Colombia’s Andean-Amazonian foothills are among the most pressing deforestation hotspots in the country. Yet, the relationships and dependencies of underlying deforestation drivers are not well understood. For an adequate territorial reorganization in the post-conflict era that is sensitive to local context, a targeted analysis of the present situation at the local level is required. This study investigates direct and indirect deforestation drivers, relationships among these and potential measures to lower deforestation post-conflict.
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Analyses of Land Cover Change Trajectories Leading to Tropical Forest Loss: Illustrated for the West Kutai and Mahakam Ulu Districts, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Journal Articles & Books
September, 2018
Indonesia
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agricultural land management
agriculture
biodiversity
deforestation
deforestation
land cover
land cover change
land cover mapping
land use
land use change
sustainable land management
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Analyses of Land Cover Change Trajectories Leading to Tropical Forest Loss: Illustrated for the West Kutai and Mahakam Ulu Districts, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Journal Articles & Books
September, 2018
Indonesia
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agricultural land management
agriculture
biodiversity
deforestation
deforestation
land cover
land cover change
land cover mapping
land use
land use change
sustainable land management
In Indonesia, land cover change for agriculture and mining is threatening tropical forests, biodiversity and ecosystem services. However, land cover change is highly dynamic and complex and varies over time and space. In this study, we combined Landsat-based land cover (change) mapping, pixel-to-pixel cross tabulations and expert knowledge to analyze land cover change and forest loss in the West Kutai and Mahakam Ulu districts in East Kalimantan from 1990-2009.
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Andean Countries: A Strategy for Forestry, Volume I of V . Executive Summary

Reports & Research
December, 2006
United States of America, Chile, Peru, Italy, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina, Venezuela, Uruguay, Americas
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
deforestation
sustainable land management
forest land
To address the needs of individual regions, such as LAC, more detailed regional and sub regional strategies are needed to ensure that forestry contributes fully to the challenges of poverty, inequity, environmental degradation and sustainable development. This report presents such a strategy for four Andean Countries of South America, that is, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Venezuela could not be included because of time constraints, and the difficulties of obtaining a suitable consultant to carry out the field work.
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Biophysical suitability, economic pressure and land-cover change: a global probabilistic approach and insights for REDD+

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2014
Europe
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
sustainable land management
land cover
deforestation
climate change
There has been a concerted effort by the international scientific community to understand the multiple causes and patterns of land-cover change to support sustainable land management. Here, we examined biophysical suitability, and a novel integrated index of “Economic Pressure on Land” (EPL) to explain land cover in the year 2000, and estimated the likelihood of future land-cover change through 2050, including protected area effectiveness.
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Causas de Degradación Forestal en Colombia

Journal Articles & Books
June, 2018
Nicaragua, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Uruguay, Canada, Indonesia, India, Italy, Montenegro, Portugal, Netherlands
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land degradation
deforestation
forest land
sustainable land management
El manual proporciona información sobre los procedimientos que siguen las brigadas de campo para realizar el establecimiento de los conglomerados y parcelas permanentes del Inventario Forestal Nacional (IFN). Asimismo, suministra información acerca de la planificación y ejecución de cada una de las fases que contempla el operativo, describe los métodos, técnicas e instrumentos que se emplean en la toma de los datos, y detalla el proceso de diligenciamiento de los formatos creados por IDEAM para registrar los datos e información de campo.
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Climate Benefits, Tenure Costs

The Economic Case For Securing Indigenous Land Rights in the Amazon

Reports & Research
October, 2016
South America, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
community forestry
deforestation
forest conservation
indigenous peoples' lands
forest land
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
land rights
community land rights
indigenous peoples' land rights
land tenure systems
tenure security
Indigenous Peoples
A new report offers evidence that the modest investments needed to secure land rights for indigenous communities will generate billions in returns—economically, socially and environmentally—for local communities and the world’s changing climate. The report, Climate Benefits, Tenure Costs: The Economic Case for Securing Indigenous Land Rights, quantifies for the first time the economic value of securing land rights for the communities who live in and protect forests, with a focus on Colombia, Brazil, and Bolivia.
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Combating Land Degradation in Production Landscapes : Learning from GEF Projects Applying Integrated Approaches

Reports & Research
December, 2014
Global
climate change
deforestation
fisheries
forest management plans
forestry
land degradation
land use
land-use planning
rangelands
sustainable development
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
During the Fifth Replenishment Phase of
the Global Environment Facility (GEF-5), portfolio
monitoring and learning review were introduced as key
components of knowledge management in the GEF Secretariat.
These strategies were intended to address the need to
generate knowledge on innovative practices, experiences, and
lessons from projects financed by the GEF. In that regard,
the Land Degradation focal area strategy for GEF-5
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Country Report Sri Lanka

Land-use change and forestry at the national and sub-national level

Reports & Research
April, 2011
Sri Lanka
Forest Tenure
development
public participation
climate change
forestry
deforestation
forest conservation
land use
agriculture
land use change
sustainable land management
In this report the authors aim to assess and evaluate historic and current changes in land use and forestry at the national and sub-national level in Sri Lanka. Different drivers, policies and data related to forest and land use are assessed to explore factors that have contributed to changes.

These are the main conclusions of the report:
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Cropland restoration as an essential component to the forest landscape restoration approach - Global effects of widescale adoption

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2017
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
forestry
forest management plans
land management
farmland
farming systems
land degradation
deforestation
sustainable land management
agriculture
Existing approaches and methodologies that investigate effects of land degradation on food security vary greatly. Although a relatively rich body of literature that investigates localized experiences, geophysical and socioeconomic drivers of land degradation, and the costs and benefits of avoiding land degradation already exists, less rigorously explored are the global effects of restoring degraded landscapes.