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ArticleC.A.F.E: A multi-objective decision support system for eco-hydrological forest management that quantifies and optimizes different ecosystem services. 2022
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No results found.Sustainable forest management is a powerful nature-based solution for climate-change adaptation and mitigation. In this sense, knowledge of the ecosystem services (ES) generated by forests is essential to plan and implement efficient management alternatives, especially when resources are threatened by climate change. Even more so in forests with low timber productivity, such as semi-arid Mediterranean ecosystems, where forest management based exclusively on timber products, which is the most easily monetizable service and therefore the most attractive for companies and individuals, is not profitable. C.A.F.E. (Carbon, Aqua, Fire & Eco-resilience) is a Multi-Objective Decision Support System for forest management that quantifies and optimizes ES derived from forest management, thus paving the way to payment for ES schemes. It is based on the combination of multiple pyro-eco-hydrological processes simulated by process-based models and multi-criteria optimization with genetic evolutionary algorithms. This tool allows managers to plan the silvicultural operations oriented towards thinning or planting necessary for multi-criteria forest management, answering the following 4 fundamental questions: How much, where, when or how do I have to act? In addition, it allows to see how climate change scenarios influence silvicultural actions and the production of goods and ES. The provided results are a list of possible silvicultural actions (Pareto front), each of one, associated with the quantification of the targeted ES and compared to the base line situation. As Pareto front, all solutions provided are equally valid and none is better than the other. To select a final solution, users must establish their priorities in terms of ES by filtering the solutions with the help of an iterative visualization interface. Keywords: Sustainable forest management, Climate change, Knowledge management, Landscape management, Innovation. ID:3623151 -
Book (stand-alone)Multiple-use forest management in the humid tropics
Opportunities and challenges for sustainable forest management
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Societal demands on tropical forests at the local, national and global scales are profound and varied: the regulation of the hydrological cycle; the mitigation of global climate change; the provision of timber and non-timber products; food security; recreation; biodiversity conservation; cultural and spiritual values; livelihoods and employment; and many others. The Statement of Principles on Forests, made at the Earth Summit in 1992, affirmed that forests should be managed to meet t he social, economic, ecological, cultural and spiritual needs of present and future generations. Yet we still seem far from implementing a truly holistic, multiple-use approach to forest management, or achieving the lasting conservation of tropical forests. Managing forests for multiple uses is a potential way of increasing the monetary value that communities, managers and owners ? who are sometimes the same people ? obtain from the forest resource. But knowledge of the techniques fo r managing the various forest products and services, and the availability of market opportunities for them, can differ greatly, and the capacity to implement multipleuse forest management is often low. Local communities face challenges in adjusting their traditional practices to implement forestry regulations, which are often drafted with little consideration of the multiple goods and services of forests or of local social and ecological issues. In many tropical countries, management approaches that optimize trade-offs among the various forest goods and services have traditionally been neglected, or else are not well known by managers and practitioners. Laws are usually drafted with narrow objectives, and they tend to undermine societal inclusion because of limited cross-sectoral dialogue. -
Book (series)Evaluation of the FAO-EU forest law enforcement, governance and trade programme - Phase III
GCP/GLO/600/MUL and GCP/GLO/397/EC
2022Also available in:
No results found.The FAO-EU forest law enforcement, governance and trade (FLEGT) programme seeks to reduce and eventually eliminate illegal logging. With the support of its donors, the European Union, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), the FAO-EU FLEGT Programme funds projects created by governments, civil society and private sector organizations in Latin America, Africa and Asia to improve forest governance and promote trade in legal timber products on domestic and international markets. The Programme works in support of the European Commission’s Action Plan on FLEGT to promote the legal production and consumption of timber. The evaluation looked at the third phase of the programme, which remained a significant contribution to the goals of the FLEGT Action Plan. The increased capacity of service providers (particularly beginner non-governmental organizations and civil society organizations) and micro, small and medium-sized enterprise associations was considered the most significant change generated by the programme. The promotion of South-South cooperation proved to be an important aspect of capacity enhancement. Thanks to increased capacities, but also multi-stakeholder platforms and improved policy and regulative tools, a positive incipient impact on more inclusive forest governance has been achieved. More information and independent forest monitoring provided an important contribution to improved enabling conditions for legal timber trade and on the information of timber legality, even though the actual market impact is still limited. Recommendations to FAO and its project partners and stakeholders include actions to take away institutional, fiscal, technical and political barriers to scale up results, and actions to strengthen the sustainability of results, gender equity and social inclusion, knowledge management as well as monitoring and evaluation.
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