Additionality is in detail: Farmers' choices regarding payment for ecosystem services programs in the Atlantic forest, Brazil

Alarcon, Gisele Garcia; Fantini, Alfredo Celso; Salvador, Carlos Henrique; Farley, Joshua

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.06.008

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“…Activities undertaken under an FLR programme will entail costs and there may be a need to find mechanisms to compensate' losers' (e.g. Alarcon et al, 2017). In the short term, costs of restoration inputs or opportunity costs of setting land aside for restoration may not easily be compensated by longer term benefits from restored landscapes (Adams et al, 2016).…”

Section: Adaptation: Flr Is a Long-term Process That Modifies Landscapes And Is Modified By Experiencementioning

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Diverse interpretations of governance and their relevance to forest landscape restoration

Mansourian

Sgard²

2021

Land Use Policy

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Faced with ongoing forest loss and degradation, the world's decision-makers are turning to forest landscape restoration (FLR) as a solution to many land use challenges. At the same time, governance is being promoted as an important concept in relation to forests, landscapes, land use and increasingly, FLR. Yet, both terms -governance and FLR -are complex, and their association creates widely differing expectations. In this article, we analyse uses of the term' governance', and in particular, its use in relation to FLR in published articles, as well as related literature on forest governance, landscape governance and environmental governance. Our intention is to better understand how the term' governance' is used in the FLR literature and to demonstrate the diversity of interpretations and understandings, and subsequent fuzziness in its application. We explore the categories of meanings associated with governance, and also characterize trends in the use of the term in the FLR literature. Finally, we conclude by identifying specific challenges intrinsic to the concept of FLR related to the landscape, multiple objectives and the influence of multiple spatial and temporal scales, that in turn influence governance of FLR.

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Section: Adaptation: Flr Is a Long-term Process That Modifies Landscapes And Is Modified By Experiencementioning

confidence: 99%

Diverse interpretations of governance and their relevance to forest landscape restoration

Mansourian

Sgard²

2021

Land Use Policy

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“…The practical application of the ecosystem service concept is seen in compensation payments for farmers [5,15,23,[146][147][148], which could result in the generation of more ecosystem services. This tool is targeted at the farm level and directly included in the decision-making process [5,149].…”

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A Review of Changes in Mountain Land Use and Ecosystem Services: From Theory to Practice

Pătru-Stupariu

Hossu

Grădinaru

et al. 2020

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Global changes impact the human-environment relationship, and, in particular, they affect the provision of ecosystem services. Mountain ecosystems provide a wide range of such services, but they are highly sensitive and vulnerable to change due to various human pressures and natural processes. We conducted a literature survey that focused on two main issues. The first was the identification of quantitative methods aimed at assessing the impact of land use changes in mountain regions and the related ecosystem services. The second was the analysis of the extent to which the outcomes of these assessments are useful and transferable to stakeholders. We selected papers through a keyword-driven search of the ISI Web of Knowledge and other international databases. The keywords used for the search were mountain land use change and ecosystem service. Quantitative approaches to ecosystem service assessment rely on suitable indicators, therefore land use/land cover can be used as an appropriate proxy. Landscape metrics are a powerful analytical tool; their use can increase the accuracy of assessments and facilitate the mitigation of specific phenomena, such as fragmentation or the reduction of core habitat areas. Mapping is essential: it is the basis for spatial analyzes and eases the interactions between stakeholders. Land use/land cover change is a temporal process, so both past and future approaches are meaningful. It is necessary to enhance information transfer from theory to practice. Increasing stakeholder awareness can lead to suitable management solutions, and, reciprocally, stakeholder feedback can help improve current assessment methodologies and contribute to developing new tools that are suitable for specific problems.

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“…In Santa Catarina State, for example, 78% of farms are smaller than 50 hectares, and they are owned by family farmers (IBGE, 2019), most of whom cannot afford, or are not willing, to invest in the requirements mandated by environmental laws (Alarcon et al, 2010). Alarcon et al (2017) reported that farmers in Santa Catarina State would agree to restore deforested land that they owned, but only in exchange for some monetary compensation. In such contexts, then, passive restoration becomes the most practical strategy.…”

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Dynamics of Natural Regeneration: Implications for Landscape Restoration in the Atlantic Forest, Brazil

Siminski

Zambiazi

Santos

et al. 2021

Front. For. Glob. Change

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This study aimed to understand post-agricultural natural forest regeneration in the Southern Brazilian Atlantic Forest and its possible role as a cost-effective, passive approach to forest restoration. The study characterized vegetation structure, floristic composition, and the dynamics of secondary forest chronosequences. Data were collected from 159 plots (10 × 10 m each) across forest remnants in Santa Catarina State, covering forest ages that ranged from 2 to 60 years of regeneration after swidden agriculture. Only areas with no signs of degradation were sampled in order to provide a description of vegetation characteristics that could be used to identify and monitor natural regeneration. A total of 11,455 woody plants were identified and classified into 334 species representing 71 families. As the succession process unfolds, the continuous turnover of species makes forests more diverse and structurally complex. Floristic similarity among forest types is observed during the early stages of succession, but decreases over time. Pioneer species dominate young secondary forests, representing about 40% of the basal area up to 10 years of regeneration. Shade-tolerant species start colonizing the sites at early ages; however, they become more important structural elements only after 30 years of succession. The observed patterns of forest structure and species diversity largely conform to the post-agricultural succession seen in many tropical forests. The high species diversity found in this study highlights the importance of natural regeneration as a strategy to restore ecosystems. Floristic data can be used as a reference for choosing suitable species for active restoration, as well as contributing to the design of integrated restoration strategies. We herein reinforce the potential of natural regeneration as part of large-scale restoration programs, which would be particularly attractive to family farmers by the low cost of supplies and labor.

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Additionality is in detail: Farmers' choices regarding payment for ecosystem services programs in the Atlantic forest, Brazil

Cited by 36 publications

References 41 publications

Diverse interpretations of governance and their relevance to forest landscape restoration

Diverse interpretations of governance and their relevance to forest landscape restoration

A Review of Changes in Mountain Land Use and Ecosystem Services: From Theory to Practice

Dynamics of Natural Regeneration: Implications for Landscape Restoration in the Atlantic Forest, Brazil

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