Joint Forest Management and Forest Protection Committees: Negotiation Systems and the Design of Incentives - A Case Study of West Bengal

Dutta, Madhumati; Roy, Sayahnya; Nibirh, Subhasis

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“… Tourist willingness to pay for restoration (WTP) is an adaptive and useful approach for sustainable ecosystem restoration in Sundarbans which can help revenue generation, community engagement, livelihood options, wellbeing, and decent tourist activity for coastal ecosystems 128 , 129 . Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) and Joint Forest Management (JFM) can be adopted along with the community-based mangrove reforestation (CBMR) programme and NGO initiated plantation and management within buffer and transition zones of the reserve 130 – 133 . Thus, the present study proposed to adopt CBMR approach along with JFM and PRA methods within the restoration prioritized areas located in the transitional zone and Aegialitis rotundifolia, Aegiceras corniculatum, Avicennia alba, Avicennia marina species can be adopted for this types of the restoration programme.…”

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“…8. Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) and Joint Forest Management (JFM) can be adopted along with the community-based mangrove reforestation (CBMR) programme and NGO initiated plantation and management within buffer and transition zones of the reserve [130][131][132][133] . Thus, the present study proposed to adopt CBMR approach along with JFM and PRA methods within the restoration prioritized areas located in the transitional zone and Aegialitis rotundifolia, Aegiceras corniculatum, Avicennia alba, Avicennia marina species can be adopted for this types of the restoration programme.…”

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Assessment of suitable habitat of mangrove species for prioritizing restoration in coastal ecosystem of Sundarban Biosphere Reserve, India

Sahana

Areendran

Sajjad

2022

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Mangrove forests being the abode of diverse fauna and flora are vital for healthy coastal ecosystems. These forests act as a carbon sequester and protection shield against floods, storms, and cyclones. The mangroves of the Sundarban Biosphere Reserve (SBR), being one of the most dynamic and productive ecosystems in the world are in constant degradation. Hence, habitat suitability assessment of mangrove species is of paramount significance for its restoration and ecological benefits. The study aims to assess and prioritize restoration targets for 18 true mangrove species using 10 machine-learning algorithm-based habitat suitability models in the SBR. We identified the degraded mangrove areas between 1975 and 2020 by using Landsat images and field verification. The reserve was divided into 5609 grids using 1 km gird size for understanding the nature of mangrove degradation and collection of species occurrence data. A total of 36 parameters covering physical, environmental, soil, water, bio-climatic and disturbance aspects were chosen for habitat suitability assessment. Niche overlay function and grid-based habitat suitability classes were used to identify the species-based restoration prioritize grids. Habitat suitability analysis revealed that nearly half of the grids are highly suitable for mangrove habitat in the Reserve. Restoration within highly suitable mangrove grids could be achieved in the areas covered with less than 75 percent mangroves and lesser anthropogenic disturbance. The study calls for devising effective management strategies for monitoring and conserving the degraded mangrove cover. Monitoring and effective management strategies can help in maintaining and conserving the degraded mangrove cover. The model proves to be useful for assessing site suitability for restoring mangroves. The other geographical regions interested in assessing habitat suitability and prioritizing the restoration of mangroves may find the methodology adopted in this study effective.

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Section: Policy Recommendations For Conservation and Restorationmentioning

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Section: Policy Recommendations For Conservation and Restorationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessment of suitable habitat of mangrove species for prioritizing restoration in coastal ecosystem of Sundarban Biosphere Reserve, India

Sahana

Areendran

Sajjad

2022

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Economic growth versus climate balancing: some reflections on the sustainable management of forest resource in India

Banerjee

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2015

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Designing of a sustainable forest policy is of extreme importance in our present world where the process of rapid economic growth is causing imbalance in the climatic cycles by denying ecosystems sufficient time for adaptation and the socioeconomic systems adequate opportunity for mitigation. In this paper, the forests are considered highly resilient natural resource that plays a major role in reducing the impact of global climate change through carbon sequestration, heat absorption, watershed protection, acid deposition, etc. This paper examines the prospect of sustainable forest management for an emerging economy like India, where forest coverage has gone up over the last three decades in spite of population growth, rapid urbanization, and fast economic growth.

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An empirical study on mangrove restoration in Indian Sundarbans—a community-based environmental approach

Bardhan¹

2021

Land Reclamation and Restoration Strategies for Sustainable Development

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Joint Forest Management and Forest Protection Committees: Negotiation Systems and the Design of Incentives - A Case Study of West Bengal

Cited by 6 publications

References 7 publications

Assessment of suitable habitat of mangrove species for prioritizing restoration in coastal ecosystem of Sundarban Biosphere Reserve, India

Assessment of suitable habitat of mangrove species for prioritizing restoration in coastal ecosystem of Sundarban Biosphere Reserve, India

Economic growth versus climate balancing: some reflections on the sustainable management of forest resource in India

An empirical study on mangrove restoration in Indian Sundarbans—a community-based environmental approach

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