Pub Date : 2021-09-01DOI: 10.1505/146554821833992785
P. Chirwa, J. Kamwi, G. Kabia, L. Makhubele, W. Sagona, N. Matakala, P. Gondo
HIGHLIGHTS COVID-19 had an 80% impact on forest management operations. Community forests (53%) and nature parks (96%) were the most affected. The COVID-19 pandemic had a moderate to severe impact on forest conversion to agriculture land. The pandemic resulted in serious levels of illegal logging. From the forest production perspective, the impact of COVID-19 on production, supply, demand and price of timber was low. SUMMARY The objective of the study was to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sustainable forest management in southern Africa. The study employed a targeted approach, also referred to as purposive sampling, to select respondents from the various sectors. The results show that COVID-19 had an 80% impact on forest management operations. The COVID-19 pandemic did not have a significant effect on the conversion of land from forest to other land uses. However, there was severe illegal logging and moderate to severe fires. The COVID-19 pandemic also had a severe impact on the agriculture, environment and ecotourism sectors, with nature reserves completely closed. From the forest production perspective, the impact of COVID-19 on production, supply, demand and the price of timber was generally low due to the commercial nature of the forestry sector in South Africa; the largest economy in SADC being classified as an essential sector.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-20DOI: 10.1505/146554822835224856
K. Shono, Ö. Jonsson
HIGHLIGHTS Sustainable forest management is expanding globally supported by widespread improvements of enabling conditions, but progress has been uneven. The rate of forest loss is accelerating in tropical low-income countries where coverage of forest management plans remains low and forest certification negligible. Allocating a higher proportion of forest areas to conservation and smaller proportions for production has not led to improved protection and management of tropical forests. Multipurpose management and conservation through sustainable use can optimise forest benefits. Well-managed production forests can play a key role in maintaining forest cover and ecosystem services. SUMMARY This paper analyses global progress towards sustainable forest management by climatic domains and national income levels using data from the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020. It also examines enabling conditions for sustainable forest management. The findings reveal progress towards sustainable forest management globally supported by the widespread presence of enabling frameworks. However, such progress has been uneven, and the rate of forest loss is accelerating in tropical low-income countries where coverage of forest management plans remains low and forest certification insignificant. Allocating higher proportions of forest areas to conservation and smaller proportions for production in these countries has not led to improved protection and management of forests. To enhance forest management in these priority geographies, this paper proposes conservation through sustainable use and demonstrates the value of well-managed production forests in maintaining forest cover and ecosystem services at the landscape level. Ce papier analyse le progrès global vers une gestion forestière durable par domaines climatiques et niveaux de revenus nationaux, en utilisant les données de l'Evaluation globale des ressources forestières de 2020. Il examine également les conditions permettant cette gestion forestière durable. Les résultats révèlent un progrès vers cette dernière, soutenu globalement par la présence étendue de cadres de facilitation. Un tel progrès a toutefois été inégal, et le taux de perte forestière va s'accélérant dans les pays tropicaux à faibles revenus, où l'étendue des plans de gestion forestière demeure faible, et la certification forestière insignifiante. L'allocation d'une plus grande proportion de zones forestières à la conservation et d'une partie plus faible à la production dans ces pays n'a pas conduit à une amélioration de la protection et de la gestion des forêts. Afin de renforcer la gestion forestière dans ces géographies prioritaires, ce papier propose une conservation à l'aide d'une utilisation durable et démontre la valeur des forêts dont la production est bien gérée pour le maintien du couvert forestier et des services d'écosystèmes au niveau du paysage. Este artículo analiza el progreso mundial hacia la gestión sostenible de los bosques
在广泛改善有利条件的支持下，可持续森林管理正在全球范围内扩大，但进展并不均衡。热带低收入国家森林损失的速度正在加快，这些国家森林管理计划的覆盖率仍然很低，森林核证可以忽略不计。分配较高比例的森林用于养护和较小比例的森林用于生产并没有改善热带森林的保护和管理。通过可持续利用进行多用途管理和保护可使森林效益最大化。管理良好的生产林可以在维持森林覆盖和生态系统服务方面发挥关键作用。本文利用2020年全球森林资源评估的数据，按气候域和国民收入水平分析了全球在可持续森林管理方面的进展。它还审查可持续森林管理的有利条件。调查结果显示，在广泛存在的扶持框架的支持下，全球在可持续森林管理方面取得了进展。然而，这种进展是不平衡的，热带低收入国家森林损失的速度正在加快，这些国家森林管理计划的覆盖率仍然很低，森林核证也不重要。在这些国家，将更多的森林面积分配给养护，将更少的森林面积分配给生产并没有改善森林的保护和管理。为了加强这些重点地区的森林管理，本文提出了通过可持续利用进行保护的建议，并论证了管理良好的生产林在维持森林覆盖和景观层面的生态系统服务方面的价值。Ce纸分析le普洛古莱全球更一个治理forestiere而持久的par避暑等掌握revenus nationaux,现在数据de l”这个整体des ressources弗德2020年。我将检查空气中的空气条件是否持久。将所有的交换条件都简化为交换条件，将所有的交换条件都简化为交换条件，将交换条件简化为交换条件。联合国方案(方案)和其他方案(方案)都是关于林业的，例如，其他方案(方案)和其他方案(方案)都是关于林业的，例如，其他方案(方案)和其他方案(方案)都是关于林业的，例如，其他方案(方案)都是关于林业的。L'分配d'une加上大比例的区域森林区域保护，d'une缔约方加上可行的生产数据，c 'a 'a pas管道，n'a samlilition, de la protection和de la estion des forêts。在确定林业系统的优先事项后，本文提出了一种保护林业系统的方法，即保护林业系统的资源，利用持久的林业系统的资源，保护林业系统的资源，保护林业系统的资源，保护林业系统的资源。Este artículo分析el progress of mundial haacia la gestión可支持的贫困地区的森林资源climáticos y niveles de ingressos nacional, para lo cucuzan datos de la Evaluación de Recursos Forestales Mundiales de 2020。tamamicao审查了所有有利于gestión森林可持续发展的条件。这些结果揭示了一种新的研究进展，一种新的研究进展，一种新的研究进展，一种新的研究进展，一种新的研究进展，一种新的研究进展，一种新的研究进展，一种新的研究进展。在禁运期间，巴西的进展比巴西的进展要少，巴西的进展比巴西的进展要少，巴西的进展比巴西的进展要快，巴西的进展要快，巴西的进展要快，巴西的进展要快，巴西的进展要慢，巴西的进展要慢，巴西的进展要慢，巴西的进展要慢，巴西的进展要慢，巴西的进展要慢，巴西的进展要慢，巴西的进展要慢，巴西的进展要慢。La asignación en estos países de una mayor proporción de zonas forestales a La conservación y una menor proporción a La producción no ha resultado en una major protección y gestión de los bosques。对位mejorar la行为影响en是geografia prioritarias,埃斯特危象倡言la conservacion uso traves del sostenible y demuestra el英勇de los博斯克de produccion好gestionados对位mantener la cubierta影响y洛杉矶servicios ecosistemicos含量paisaje。
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Pub Date : 2021-07-26DOI: 10.1505/146554821833466059
D. Rodríguez, J. P. S. Barletti
The protection of indigenous peoples in isolation and initial contact (PIACI) is one of the most complex issues in the human rights and environmental agenda. The implementation of frameworks to protect PIACI involves addressing conflicts by the advance of public and private initiatives and interests in their territories. This paper focuses on PIACI Roundtable, a multi-stakeholder forum (MSF) established in Peru's Loreto region to contribute to protecting these groups. The MSF sought to address the long-standing delays in the creation of five Indigenous Reserves for PIACI in Loreto's forests. The paper argues that MSFs may be fruitful spaces to raise awareness of the rights of vulnerable peoples and coordinate the implementation of supporting actions, but only when participants hold a shared respect for those recognised rights. If not, MSFs may become spaces where powerful actors relegate recognised rights to a perspective among others.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-18DOI: 10.1505/146554821832952753
R. Wahyudi, K. Pellini, J. Haryanto, F. Zamzani
HIGHLIGHTS This paper examined the capacity of Forest Management Units (FMUs) to create the space for adaptive co-management using the Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) framework. The analyses show that FMUs in Indonesia lack authority and the ability and acceptance to facilitate a reform space for adaptive co-management at the site-management level. FMUs need the authority to make independent decisions at the site-management level to accommodate the interests of place-based actors in the reform process. FMUs are not able to sustain and evolve partnership agreements without trust (acceptance) from placed-based actors. FMUs need the ability and authority to win place-based actors' trust to engage them in discourse on the future direction of collaborative forest management, protection, and use. SUMMARY A multi-jurisdictional governance system, polycentric power regimes, and overlapping rights complicate policy responses for addressing forest governance problems in Indonesia. Confronting issues that have existed for centuries as part of Indonesia's socio-cultural and political reality cannot easily be solved at the macro-scale. However, we argue that they can be tackled at the micro-scale. Adaptive co-management could offer a means of finding collaborative solutions to these problems, and we believe this approach will be effective when the problems are defined locally in a specific area with a limited number of stakeholders. This paper examines the capacity of Forest Management Units (FMUs), as the lowest level operational structure of forest management in Indonesia, to facilitate reform for adaptive co-management approaches. We examined this through an analytical framework derived from the Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation approach. This paper identifies the importance of stakeholders' acceptance to enable FMUs to coordinate adaptive co-management.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-18DOI: 10.1505/146554821832952799
F. Yang, Y. Jiang, K. Paudel
HIGHLIGHTS The theory of planned behavior (TPB) was used to select influencing factors on farmers' willingness to participate in Forest Management for Carbon Sequestration (FMCS) on the Sloping Land Conservation Program (SLCP) enrolled land. Farmers' willingness to participate in FMCS on the SLCP land is not high. Evaluation of result, result belief, normative belief, and motivation to comply all significantly affect farmers' participation willingness. The participation willingness of farmers varies between different genders and ages. A policy path to supply carbon sequestration from forest management is provided. SUMMARY Forest Management for Carbon Sequestration (FMCS) on the Sloping Land Conservation Program (SLCP) helps to promote afforestation, improve the economic wellbeing of small farmers, and helps them to cope with climate change. Based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB), this paper examines farmers' willingness to participate from five dimensions: evaluation of result, result belief, normative belief, motivation to comply, and control belief. Results show that 1) farmers' willingness to participate in FMCS on the SLCP land is not high; 2) evaluation of result, result belief, normative belief, and motivation to comply all significantly affect farmers' participation willingness; and 3) the participation willingness of farmers varies between different genders and ages. This study provides a decision-making basis for the implementation of FMCS in China. Results also have implications for the adoption of FMCS programs in other developing countries.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-18DOI: 10.1505/146554821832952816
L. Puri, I. Nuberg, B. Ostendorf, E. Cedamon
HIGHLIGHTS Operational plans have presented identical sets of forest management objectives and activities irrespective of the varying biophysical and social contexts of their implementation. Collective management objectives of community forestry differ from the priorities of individual households in the rural communities. The contents of operational plans, which are designed to inform forest management decisions, are barely related to and poorly understood by local communities. Operational plans have received a symbolic value of forest ownership rather than being used as device to guide forest management operations. The plans need revision in their technical content in order to make them relevant to the capacity, priority and practices of forest management by local communities. SUMMARY Operational plans are a key element in community forestry in Nepal. However, the relevance of these plans to forest user groups (FUGs) is under scrutiny. This study investigates the usefulness of operational plans against the backdrop of knowledge, capacity and management practices of FUGs. Data were collected from 13 operational plans, 16 group discussions involving forestry professionals, and 218 household interviews in two villages of Lamjung district in Nepal. Whereas operational plans should specifically reflect site specific objectives and activities of forest management, the survey revealed identical objectives across the community forests. Current operational plans are technically complex, poorly linked to the place-based context of livelihood needs and less useful to the FUGs to inform and enhance forest management. This study proposes to differentiate community forests according to their production potentials, and revise the operational plans by shortening the elements that have little or no relevance to the FUGs.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-18DOI: 10.1505/146554821832952735
S.Z. Goushehgir, J. Feghhi, J. Innes
HIGHLIGHTS For more than a century, management of the Hyrcanian forests was focused on wood production. However, the selection of conservation indicators as the most important reveals a recent emphasis amongst forest managers on other functions of the Hyrcanian forests. Most previous studies in the Hyrcanian forests prioritized indicators based on their importance. By adding measurability as an additional factor, the protection indicators showed the highest value among all Hyrcanian forest function indicators. Only a few recreation indicators remained as important or measurable indicators, which may be attributable to the lack of strong theory and appropriate practices related to recreation. In addition to the measurability attribute, the interconnection of indicators plays a significant role in achieving a set of key performance indicators. The indicators' overall cumulative impacts determine those with the highest centrality and were eventually assumed as the key performance indicators. Based on the interconnections between indicators, five indicators were recognized as key performance indicators for four forest functions, consistent with a more realistic view of forest management with particular attention to the cost and effort involved in measuring indicators. SUMMARY This study identifies key performance indicators for monitoring the sustainability of forest functions in the northern forests of Iran. This process was conducted in two phases through the Delphi method, and Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping (FCM). The Delphi method classified indicators according to two properties, importance and measurability. These were used to identify four classes: (a) important and measurable, (b) important and less measurable, (c) less important and measurable, (d) less important and less measurable. Indicators placed in groups (a) and (b) were then used to develop a set of key performance indicators using FCM. The FCM enabled the evaluation of the overall cumulative impacts of all indicators within the network, individually and collectively, through their interactions with other indicators. The selected methods and possible application of the key performance indicators could be used to determine how to achieve the sustainable management of a forest area.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-18DOI: 10.1505/146554821832952780
Y. Rawat, A. Tekleyohannes
HIGHLIGHTS Development and innovation in the sustainable forest products industry enhances socio-economic growth and the optimization of environmental objectives. Land and forest resources are the major basic productive factors for primary and secondary forest products manufacturing. Productive factors determine the development and competitiveness of forest products. Collective actions and inclusiveness are important in large-scale tree planting programmes for accelerated impact. A sustainable landscape approach is an effective tool for sustainable forest management and innovative forest products industry development. SUMMARY The objective of this study was to examine existing knowledge on forest products development and to promote sustainable forest management in Ethiopia. Furthermore, the paper aimed to assess the development and status of Ethiopia's forest products industry in terms of resource base, manufacturing and marketing. It was found that the current annual fuelwood consumption is about 133M m3, with 90% of cooking energy obtained from woody biomass. Wood consumption for primary and secondary forest products manufacturing is expected to increase from the current 112M m3 to 158M m3 by 2033. This review reveals that the development and innovation of a sustainable forest products industry in Ethiopia should balance the production and ecological functions of forest resources. To meet Ethiopia's primary and secondary forest products needs, it is recommended that a clear policy framework be advanced and promoted, including wood technology, forest science and education, silviculture, and post-plantation management practices.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-18DOI: 10.1505/146554821832952744
M. Fayiah
HIGHLIGHTS Natural and man-made factors are responsible for forest exploitation. Weak forest policies and legislatures contribute to deforestation. The impacts of population growth and climate change affect forest sustainability. Natural forest and plantation area estimates in Sierra Leone are uncertain. Significant revisions are required in forest legislation. SUMMARY Sierra Leone is part of the Upper Guinean Forests with a climate that enhances great floral biodiversity. The exploitation of forest resources in Sierra Leone has seen a steady increase over the years while the establishment of forest plantations has witnessed a drastic decline. The relationship between forest exploitation and plantation forest decline is broadly assumed to be influenced by population growth, weak forest policies, legislatures, forest management and monitoring policies over the past century. The paper examines forests status and forest resources policy evolution since the pre-colonial era but pays particular attention to policies developed from 1988, in the post-colonial era, and the challenges facing their implementation. The paper highlights major challenges facing the healthy and sustainable growth of forest resources in Sierra Leone. The challenges range from the attachment of the Forestry Division to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security (MAFFS), the overlap in ministerial mandates about forest protection, corrupt government officials, poverty, illegal logging, inadequate funding and staff, natural disaster and outdated forestry instruments. Natural factors such as climate change, drought, and landslides are considered among the issues affecting the sustainable expansion of forest resources in Sierra Leone. A flowchart of forest sustainability challenges in Sierra Leone was designed, and classified forest challenges into natural and man-made causes. The inability of the Forestry Division to become an independent body and the continued reliance of the Division on the 1988 Forestry Act to make informed decisions in the 21st century is serving as a major barrier in sustaining forests resources in Sierra Leone. Improving forest management in the country requires the collective efforts of both national and international forests protections entities and organizations. Sound forests conservation policies and adequate funding and staffing can strengthen the Forestry Division in enforcing its constitutional mandates. Adopting the best practices models from countries such as China, India and the USA will help towards the goal of managing forest resources sustainably for current and future generations.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-18DOI: 10.1505/146554821832952807
M. L. Ávalos-Rodríguez, M. McCall, J. Špirić, M. I. Ramírez, J. Alvarado
HIGHLIGHTS Forest governance schemes should incorporate the principles of legality, legitimacy, and legitimation. The principle of legality arises from the existence of a legal framework in force. The principle of legitimacy is born from social recognition. The principle of legitimation can be understood from the desired effect of both the law and social recognition. Normative, sociological and institutional indicators can be identified that allow understanding of the legitimacy. SUMMARY At the international level, the REDD+ mechanism has been promoted through public policies and financial incentives to improve forest conditions and reduce climate change. Given the dynamics of deforestation and forest degradation in Mexico, REDD+ has been implemented as a strategy that can be analyzed under indicators of legality, legitimacy and legitimation to understand its acceptance in the community and the achievement of the effects of policies planned, formulated, implemented and evaluated as forest governance schemes. The objective of this study is to identify in the scientific literature the main indicators of legality, legitimacy and legitimation in public policies and to propose a framework for analyzing forest governance in Mexico, using REDD+ as an example of an emerging international public policy. To achieve an approach to legality, legitimacy and legitimation, an exploration, review and description of various studies that have identified these indicators has been carried out. Some of the studies are associated with forest governance schemes and propose models to determine their presence in government actions, public policies and forestry legislation. The main findings suggest that the construction of normative, sociological and institutional indicators, mainly for forest legitimacy, as well as the knowledge of the normativity (legality) and the effect caused (legitimation) must be understood in an interrelated way, even though, in the literature, some authors identify legitimacy as synonymous with legitimation.
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