Forest Restoration Potential in a Deforested Mountain Area: An Ecosociological Approach towards Sustainability

Zerbe, Stefan; Pieretti, Lorenzo; Elsen, Susanne; Asanidze, Zezva; Asanidze, Iveri; Mumladze, Levan

doi:10.1093/forsci/fxz081

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“…Mazzocchi, 2020; Zidny et al, 2021); a way to achieve sustainability (DiPrete Brown et al, 2020; Hosen et al, 2020); part of ecosystem services (Afentina and Wright, 2020); a source of knowledge about environments and/or environmental processes that researchers are unable to investigate using western scientific methods (e.g. Davies et al, 2020; Ferreira-Rodríguez et al, 2021; Peacock et al, 2020); a way to make environmental initiatives more palatable to local groups (Matuk et al, 2020; see also Chua et al, 2020); or a resource for ecotourism (Zerbe et al, 2020), development (Congretel and Pinton, 2020), health data (Samuel-Nakamura, 2020), or pharmaceutical knowledge (Gaddy, 2020; Schultz et al, 2020).…”

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Toward productive complicity: Applying ‘traditional ecological knowledge’ in environmental science

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Gillette

Burman

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The Anthropocene Review

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Culture and tradition have long been the domains of social science, particularly social/cultural anthropology and various forms of heritage studies. However, many environmental scientists whose research addresses environmental management, conservation, and restoration are also interested in traditional ecological knowledge, indigenous and local knowledge, and local environmental knowledge (hereafter TEK), not least because policymakers and international institutions promote the incorporation of TEK in environmental work. In this article, we examine TEK usage in peer-reviewed articles by environmental scientists published in 2020. This snapshot of environmental science scholarship includes both critical discussions of how to incorporate TEK in research and management and efforts to do so for various scholarly and applied purposes. Drawing on anthropological discussions of culture, we identify two related patterns within this literature: a tendency toward essentialism and a tendency to minimize power relationships. We argue that scientists whose work reflects these trends might productively engage with knowledge from the scientific fields that study culture and tradition. We suggest productive complicity as a reflexive mode of partnering, and a set of questions that facilitate natural scientists adopting this approach: What and/or who is this TEK for? Who and what will benefit from this TEK deployment? How is compensation/credit shared? Does this work give back and/or forward to all those involved?

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Toward productive complicity: Applying ‘traditional ecological knowledge’ in environmental science

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Gillette

Burman

et al. 2021

The Anthropocene Review

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“…The importance of restoring the ecological value of mine soils cannot be overemphasized [67]. However, considering the ecological hierarchy, cost, and other requirements, it is not all mined sites that can be efficiently reclaimed ecologically.…”

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An Approach to Thresholds for Evaluating Post-Mining Site Reclamation

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Here, a time-scale conceptual threshold model for assessing, evaluating, documenting, and monitoring post-mining sites reclamation progress was developed. It begins from initial state I0 down to degraded state D0 (which depends on the mining). Reclamation starts with soil reconstruction R−2 up to revegetation R−1 (red zones) to reach minimum threshold R0 (amber zone). Beyond R0 are green zones R1, R2, and R3 representing soil/abiotic conditions, biological, and improved threshold, respectively. The model also identifies potential drivers, land-use options, targets, and endpoints along the threshold reclamation ladder. It is applicable to all degraded ecosystems and adoptable in national and international laws. In this approach study, we identified threshold biotic/abiotic indicators for ascertaining success from R0, future work focuses on measurement and ascribing of threshold values to each of the threshold stage.

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“…Additionally, to the tropical and subtropical climate zones, deforestation and loss of the forest diversity are of growing concern in the world's mountainous regions. In Central Asia and the Caucasus region where almost half of the population lives in rural areas under socially vulnerable conditions, deforestation and forest degradation have been significantly intensified in the last few centuries (Akhalkatsi 2015;Zerbe et al 2020). Where the use of forest resources and livestock agriculture are the major sources of income for the communities, the growing population is favouring further forest degradation (UNECE, FAO 2019).…”

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Diversity and degradation of the vegetation of mountain belt forests of central Adjara (the Lesser Caucasus), Georgia

Goginashvili¹,

Togonidze²,

Tvauri³

et al. 2021

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The Colchis forests contribute to the biodiversity hotspot in the Caucasus eco-region. We investigated the plant diversity of these forests in the central part of Adjara (W Georgia). The aims of our study were (i) to differentiate the forest vegetation diversity in the mountain belt forests by means of phytosociology, (ii) to associate endemic taxa with the revealed forest types, and (iii) to assess degradation of the forest vegetation diversity by means of environmental abiotic and biotic factors. We sampled the forest vegetation on 135 plots with the size of 10 × 10 m2 and 237 plant taxa were recorded. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was used to reduce environmental variables to a few orthogonal composed variables. The derived factors (PC1, PC2) were used in ordination analysis to group the plot measured forest vegetation diversity. One-way ANOVA was used for the comparison of means between the separated clusters in PCA. Two-Way Indicator Species Analysis (TWINSPAN) and Indicator Species Analysis (ISA) were applied for the association of the plant taxa with the vegetation cluster groups separated by PCA. Our analysis revealed two general ecologically distinct forest types which were characterized as dry and humid forests. Endemic species had the main occurrence in dry forests of the studied territory which are heavily impacted by the local land use. The results indicated that the vegetation diversity of dry forests is under higher threat of degradation than that of humid ones because these forests are not protected and are subjected to non-sustainable forest exploitation. Additionally, many rural and invasive plant species change the native plant assemblages. Based on our findings, we recommend to the organization which manages the local forests to find a balance between the use of forest resources and protection of the unique floristic diversity of local forests in order to avoid their degradation.

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Forest Restoration Potential in a Deforested Mountain Area: An Ecosociological Approach towards Sustainability

Cited by 13 publications

References 33 publications

Toward productive complicity: Applying ‘traditional ecological knowledge’ in environmental science

Toward productive complicity: Applying ‘traditional ecological knowledge’ in environmental science

An Approach to Thresholds for Evaluating Post-Mining Site Reclamation

Diversity and degradation of the vegetation of mountain belt forests of central Adjara (the Lesser Caucasus), Georgia

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