Ecuador Suffers the Highest Deforestation Rate in South America

Mosandl, R.; Günter, Sven; Stimm, Bernd; Weber, Michael T.

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“…Around 38% of the country's land area is covered by forest, mainly Amazonian tropical forest (Bertzky et al 2010). However, Ecuador maintains high levels of deforestation compared with other Latin American countries (Mosandl et al 2008, FAO 2009, MAE 2011. High levels of deforestation and political will to reverse these trends make Ecuador a candidate that could benefit from the implementation of REDD+ activities (Da Fonseca et al 2007).…”

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Building local institutions for national conservation programs: lessons for developing Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) programs

Collen¹,

Krause²,

Mundaca³

et al. 2016

E&S

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ABSTRACT. For programs that aim to promote forest conservation and poverty alleviation, such as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+), the participation of indigenous communities is essential to meet program goals. Using Ostrom's theory of collective action for common pool resource management, we evaluated the institutions governing indigenous participation in the Programa Socio Bosque incentive-based conservation program in Ecuador. We conducted structured interviews with 94 members in 4 communities to assess community institutions for 6 of Ostrom's principles, using 12 measures we developed for the principles. We found substantial variation between communities in terms of their institutional performance. The best-performing community performed well (>50% of interviewees reported successfully meeting the measure) on 8 of the 12 measures. The weakest performed well on only 2 out of 12 measures. Overall, our results indicate that there is stronger performance for constitutional-level institutions, which determine who gets to make the rules, and some collective-choice institutions, which determine how local rules are made. We identified specific challenges with the day-to-day operational institutions that arise from participation in nation statecommunity conservation programs, such as restricted resource appropriation, monitoring and compliance, and conflict resolution. We found that top-down policy making has an important role to play in supporting communities to establish constitutional-level and some collective-choice institutions. However, developing operational institutions may take more time and depend on local families' day-today use of resources, and thus may require a more nuanced policy approach. As some countries and donors find a jurisdictional REDD+ approach increasingly attractive, complementing top-down policy measures with bottom-up institutional development could provide a stronger platform to achieve the shift from current land use driving deforestation to a lower-carbon-emissions land management trajectory.

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confidence: 99%

Building local institutions for national conservation programs: lessons for developing Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) programs

Collen¹,

Krause²,

Mundaca³

et al. 2016

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“…Most observed Eois species were only recorded on a single species of Piper, despite the fact that all but the rarest Piper species that occur in the studied habitats were covered in this study. Such high specialization also renders these species particularly vulnerable to the threat of co-extinction if their host species are lost ), a factor of particular importance in the Andes of Ecuador, which suffer from one of the highest deforestation rates in the world (Mosandl et al 2008). Further details on phylogenetic patterns of their host plant use have recently been revealed in a case study co-authored by the author of this thesis ).…”

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First Host Plant Record forThaeides muela(Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae: Theclinae: Eumaeini)

Vargas

Duarte

2014

Florida Entomologist

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“…A todo esto se puede añadir los efectos a largo plazo de una inversión insuficiente para la educación y atención sanitaria y una visión a corto plazo basada en ganancias rápidas (Mosandl et al, 2008).…”

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La colonia interna vigente: transformación del territorio humano en la región amazónica del Ecuador

Jarrín‐V

Carrillo

Zamora

2016

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La región amazónica del Ecuador compartía con el resto de la Amazonía una compleja red de culturas y civilizaciones, las cuales fueron drásticamente reducidas o extintas tras las políticas de colonización iniciadas desde Europa y posteriormente por las nuevas repúblicas. Desde entonces, los procesos coloniales han estado basados en políticas económicas y desarrollistas incompatibles con la cultura, formas de vida y ecología presentes en la región y han desencadenado una dramática serie de consecuencias sociales que representan obstáculos para el desarrollo saludable de los habitantes de la región. Por ser un territorio explotado en sus recursos naturales, caóticamente ocupado por población humana, con sistemas de producción deficiente y de vulnerabilidad ecológica, creemos que debe permanecer vigente el concepto de colonia interna. El concepto de colonia interna debe estar presente en la búsqueda de soluciones para los problemas que la región enfrenta.

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Ecuador Suffers the Highest Deforestation Rate in South America

Cited by 83 publications

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Building local institutions for national conservation programs: lessons for developing Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) programs

Building local institutions for national conservation programs: lessons for developing Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) programs

First Host Plant Record forThaeides muela(Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae: Theclinae: Eumaeini)

La colonia interna vigente: transformación del territorio humano en la región amazónica del Ecuador

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