Pub Date : 2021-02-05DOI: 10.1525/cse.2021.1426687
L. Moripi
This study was done to develop a best fit model for soil carbon distribution to 1-m depth in Papua New Guinea’s Morobe Province using multiple linear regression (MLR) technique on environmental variables elevation, slope, aspect, normalized difference vegetative index, mean annual temperature (MAT) and mean annual precipitation (MAP) using SPSS and ArcGis 10 software. Descriptive, correlation and MLR analyses were performed, and the data revealed that elevation and MAT were skewed. Slope and elevation were significantly negatively correlated to soil carbon distribution (R = −.725 at p < .05; R = −.862 at p < .01), while MAT was significantly positively correlated to the soil carbon distribution (R = .906 at p < .01). Three models developed from MLR analysis revealed that Model 2 (adjusted R2 = .987 at p < .05) and Model 3 (adjusted R2 = .990 at p < .05) were both significant, hence Model 2 developed Equation (3), whereas Model 3 developed Equation (4). Prediction accuracy of the two equations revealed that Equation (3) (root mean square error [RMSE] = 2.597) performed better than Equation (4) (RMSE = 2.764), hence Equation (3) was the best fit model that developed the predicted map of soil carbon distribution (Model 1 predicted approximately 271 t/ha). This study shows that environmental variables can be used to predict soil carbon distribution. However, the limited number of sites (n = 8) could have greatly affected the model development exercise (e.g., the surprising positive correlation of soil carbon with MAT) and consequently the accuracy of the prediction map.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-05DOI: 10.1525/cse.2021.1448736
June Mandawali, D. Wadley, R. Turia
This article aims to identify and realize opportunities for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) through consideration of gender issues during the development and implementation of Papua New Guinea’s first National Forest Inventory (NFI). To improve the planning and management of forests, the agenda is to achieve sustainability of ecosystem services, uncover economic and social values, and contribute to combating climate change and biodiversity loss at the global level. In the context of the NFI, we canvass three thematic areas of forest practice which, in assimilating women’s roles, knowledge, and interests, promise a positive impact on economic efficiency and development. They are (1) women fostering the reduction of emissions from deforestation, forest degradation, and other management objectives, which include conservation, sustainable management of forests, and enhancement of forest carbon stocks or REDD+; (2) women and sustainable forest management; and (3) women in community forestry. The conclusion gauges the general role of women in forestry and summarizes future research directions, through policy recommendations, and technological and institutional interventions.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-05DOI: 10.1525/cse.2021.1434919
G. Hill
The Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, conducted an independence referendum in 2019, which resulted in the region seeking a pathway to complete independence. One of the requirements in establishing independence is ensuring “good governance,” an important facet of which is establishing a stable and adequate food supply. This is framed globally as achieving Sustainable Development Goal Two (SDG #2) to end hunger and malnutrition. This article seeks to assess the measures that government and major donors have taken to implement SDG #2 in Bougainville using a pressure-state-response framework and desktop-based risk assessment to identify areas for further work. The investigation aims to identify effective policy focus areas in order to better implement SDG #2, namely, prioritising civil conflict avoidance, facilitating adaptation planning for climate regime shifts, and ensuring sustainable agricultural intensity and fisheries extraction. Based on these, recommendations for good governance include sustainable and equitable long-term interventions that reduce the risk of political disturbance and environmental degradation. As a result of engaging in this case, readers will be able to apply similar methodologies to inform development decisions in postconflict contexts. Bougainville faces similar challenges to many Pacific islands, including the impacts from climate change, food insecurity, conflict, population growth, and changing land tenure. This case can be extrapolated to these greater contexts.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-05DOI: 10.1525/cse.2021.1425563
Toni M. Groet, Elizabeth E. Hieb, Elizabeth S. Darrow, R. Carmichael
Collaboration among scientists and stakeholders is increasingly valued in research to coproduce knowledge and research products that better inform decision making and enact meaningful change. We present an example of effective coproduction of knowledge to protect water quality along the Mississippi–Alabama coast using a comprehensive approach that tracked progress from initial research through product assessment. We coproduced an education and decision support tool known as “Our Wastewater Footprint” and engaged communities through a variety of public outreach efforts, adapting the product to meet the needs of individual end users. We assessed the effectiveness of our efforts by tracking attendance at outreach activities, measuring website traffic, and collecting survey data from end users after product use. Data from >9,900 users indicated that presentations at community events and print and social media posts most efficiently reached large audiences using limited resources, and social media posts were most effective in promoting changes in behavior and attitudes on a social level. This case study exemplifies how involving stakeholders in research and product development can increase community engagement in stewardship and prompt change to enhance water quality. Our results tangibly demonstrate that meaningful assessment of the administrative and social impacts of coproduced knowledge is feasible and can be accomplished in a short period of time.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-05DOI: 10.1525/CSE.2021.1231702
K. Miller, M. Burson, M. Kiparsky
For decades, the city of Albuquerque, NM, relied solely on groundwater for its municipal water supply. However, concerns about long-term sustainability of its local groundwater resources spurred the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority (the Water Authority) to pursue a groundwater recharge project which could serve as a drought reserve for future municipal use. Aided by new favorable state groundwater recharge legislation and funding, the Water Authority developed the Bear Canyon Recharge Project. The project utilizes portions of the Water Authority’s Colorado River water that is unused in a given year, delivering the water to an unlined arroyo channel where it infiltrates into local aquifers. As the first groundwater recharge project successfully implemented in New Mexico, the Bear Canyon Recharge Project required significant local effort to navigate the institutional and regulatory necessities that arose in implementing an onstream recharge project. The project illustrates that state support can be necessary but not sufficient for local implementation of groundwater recharge and points the way for other water utilities in the state who may be looking to implement groundwater recharge projects.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-05DOI: 10.1525/cse.2021.1438458
D. Fauzi
In 2011, Sitio Pariahan in the northern part of Metro Manila, the Philippines’ capital region, was submerged after Typhoon Nesat hit the country. In fact, Sitio Pariahan is not the only one. Many parts of Manila Bay have slowly been sinking, causing the populations to be prone to coastal floods. According to the existing studies, coastal floods in Manila Bay areas are caused by climate-induced sea-level rise and land subsidence due to the excessive groundwater extraction and rapid urban development. However, it appears that the policies implemented by the government tend to be infrastructural, for example, dike construction, which could provide immediate protection but do not really solve the problem. This case study, therefore, presents a detailed account of coastal flooding in Manila Bay, particularly on its causes and policy options to address it. More specifically, it introduces the application of social contract to understand how the terms and conditions governing the state-citizens relations in the Philippines affect government’s rationale in choosing policy options to solve the coastal flood problem.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-05DOI: 10.1525/CSE.2021.1422170
Shannon Orr
Asian carp were introduced in the 1970s as an environmentally friendly alternative to chemicals for cleaning aquaculture ponds. The carp escaped from their ponds and entered the Mississippi River system, leaving behind a path of destruction. Now, they are just a few miles away from the Great Lakes where they pose a threat to the billion-dollar fishing industry. One of the challenges in dealing with the problem is the diverse array of stakeholders involved who all have very different perspectives, concerns, and ideas about this policy problem. This case study demonstrates the challenges of stakeholder management in public policy and gives readers an analytical framework for thinking about stakeholder interests.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-05DOI: 10.1525/CSE.2021.1222393
K. Miller, A. Fisher, M. Kiparsky
Decades of groundwater overuse in the Pajaro Valley have contributed to an estimated groundwater overdraft of 12,100 acre-feet per year (AFY) in the basin. In response, the Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency adopted a pilot groundwater recharge program, called Recharge Net Metering (ReNeM). ReNeM encourages development of infiltration projects on private or public land by offering a rebate on groundwater pumping fees based on the net increase in infiltration. The rebate uses the following equation: Rebate = W50x (Inftot − Infinc), where Infinc is the incidental infiltration that would have occurred without the project, Inftot is total measured infiltration, and W50 represents the proportion (50%) of the pumping fee assessed to the landowner based on location. The goal of Pajaro Valley’s ReNeM pilot program is to infiltrate 1,000 AFY to the aquifer by creating and operating infiltration projects at multiple sites. This effort will help reduce groundwater overdraft and associated undesirable consequences (seawater intrusion, disconnection with surface water, and degradation to water quality). This case study analyzes the local conditions and institutions that make the ReNeM pilot program feasible, including previously established groundwater pumping fees, metered wells, and the existence of third-party certifiers able to verify the results of project sites. The ReNeM pilot has enabled increased recharge by creating new incentives that have drawn PV Water, landowners, and tenant farmers to develop recharge projects. The ReNeM pilot is the first and thus far only application of this approach, but the methods used by ReNeM may have potential applicability elsewhere. This potential will hinge on whether the pilot can prove the effectiveness of the rebate scheme and demonstrate measurable benefits in the Pajaro Valley.
帕贾罗河谷数十年的地下水过度使用导致该流域每年地下水超采12100英亩英尺（AFY）。作为回应，帕杰罗河谷水管理局通过了一项名为“补给网计量”（ReNeM）的地下水补给试点计划。ReNeM鼓励在私人或公共土地上开发渗透项目，根据渗透的净增加提供地下水抽水费回扣。回扣使用以下公式：回扣=W50x（Inftot−Infinc），其中Infinc是在没有项目的情况下可能发生的偶然渗透，Inftot是测量的总渗透，W50代表根据位置向土地所有者评估的抽水费的比例（50%）。Pajaro Valley ReNeM试点项目的目标是通过在多个地点创建和运行渗透项目，将1000 AFY渗透到含水层。这项工作将有助于减少地下水超采和相关的不良后果（海水入侵、与地表水断开连接和水质退化）。本案例研究分析了使ReNeM试点项目可行的当地条件和机构，包括之前确定的地下水抽水费、计量井，以及能够验证项目现场结果的第三方认证机构的存在。ReNeM试点通过创造新的激励措施，吸引了光伏水务、土地所有者和佃农来开发充电项目，从而增加了充电。ReNeM试点是该方法的第一个也是迄今为止唯一的应用，但ReNeM使用的方法可能在其他地方具有潜在的适用性。这一潜力将取决于试点项目能否证明退税计划的有效性，并在帕贾罗山谷证明可衡量的效益。
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Pub Date : 2021-02-05DOI: 10.1525/cse.2021.1425584
M. Adams, Samuel Blake, Joseph Braun, Yazmina Cardona, Thomas Collins, Jacob Dubay, Alexandria Elliott, Alessandro Epifanio, Hiyab Haile, Robert Irving, Thian Misner, Michelle Nowak, Alex Price, Ian Richey, Inna Slager, Kimberly J. Coleman
Collaborative planning is increasingly common in the context of natural resource management in the United States. However, there is no universal way to organize collaborative groups, and, subsequently, collaborative structures vary from collaborative group to collaborative group. In order to contribute to the growing knowledge base about the implications of different collaborative structures, we conducted a case study of the Tapash Sustainable Forestry Collaborative, a group located in Washington State that is focused on forest restoration. By analyzing interviews and archival data, we documented the organizational structure of the collaborative group and explored the outcomes of that structure in terms of trust and relationship. We illustrate how the structure of the Tapash Sustainable Forestry Collaborative led to both positive and negative outcomes and additionally describe the steps the group took to address the negative outcomes. Our findings will be useful for anyone considering how to structure their own collaborative group. It can also serve to as an example for scholars interested in the characteristics that support successful collaborative natural resource planning and management. Additionally, the case study provides readers with a background information about several content areas including public participation in forest plan and management, national-level legislation related to forest planning and management, trust and trust repair, adaptive governance, and adaptive management.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-13DOI: 10.1525/CSE.2020.1234945.1
Mariaelena Huambachano, Lauren Cooper
In the midst of climate change, population growth, and global food crisis scenarios, efforts to succeed in Sustainable Land Management (SLM) implementation are under enormous pressure. To contextualize Indigenous experiences on nature valuation in light of sustainable development efforts, we explored how the traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) of two Indigenous communities interacted with major land policies with sustainability implications through an ethnographic and community-based participatory research approach. Data collection tools included talking circles, storytelling, unstructured interviews, and participant observation with Indigenous community members of Shimaa and Diamante to understand how two major land management policies intersect in SLM, Indigenous values, TEK, and rights in the Peruvian Amazon. In complementation with secondary literature assessing the focal policies, the empirical data analysis, through a lens of TEK, provides a deeper examination of Indigenous peoples’ ways of knowing. Research findings show that TEK of Indigenous peoples can support values of nature and shape the design and implementation of SLM policies by incorporating Indigenous peoples’ holistic values of nature (e.g., relational and intrinsic values) and methods for sustainable and equitable land management, with improved outcomes for communities. However, the TEK of Indigenous peoples, values of nature, and rights can be at odds with the Eurocentric-oriented SLM in terms of values placed on nature, and results in a disconnection between international and national policy goals with realities at the local levels. This study concludes that to fully realize the objectives of SLM, it is imperative for decision makers to recognize the TEK of Indigenous peoples rooted in a holistic understanding of the multiple values attributed to nature, which resonates with the notion of a plural approach to valuing nature. Further, methods should include land management practices that are beneficial for such communities and not strictly for the production of goods for societal consumption, however long it may be sustained into the future. Such a management scheme would value ecologic stability, community resilience, and a wide range of human-nature values while still recognizing development needs.
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