Measuring impacts of community forestry program through repeat photography and satellite remote sensing in the Dolakha district of Nepal

Niraula, Rabin Raj; Gilani, Hammad; Pokharel, Bharat K.; Qamer, Faisal Mueen

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2013.04.006

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“…In addition to being timely and cost effective [18], satellite based monitoring enables a transparent and reliable [19] means to monitor forest cover conditions. Although errors in the interpretation of spectral response and human bias exist [20,21], remote sensing remains to play key role in identifying and estimating deforested and reforested areas [22,23]. In the Himalayas, the application of remote sensing was introduced in the mid-1980s [24] to identify and analyze the Land Use Land Cover (LULC) pattern [25][26][27].…”

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Mapping Deforestation and Forest Degradation Patterns in Western Himalaya, Pakistan

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Abstract:The Himalayan mountain forest ecosystem has been degrading since the British ruled the area in the 1850s. Local understanding of the patterns and processes of degradation is desperately required to devise management strategies to halt this degradation and provide long-term sustainability. This work comprises a satellite image based study in combination with national expert validation to generate sub-district level statistics for forest cover over the Western Himalaya, Pakistan, which accounts for approximately 67% of the total forest cover of the country. The time series of forest cover maps (1990, 2000, 2010) reveal extensive deforestation in the area. Indeed, approximately 170,684 ha of forest has been lost, which amounts to 0.38% per year clear cut or severely degraded during the last 20 years. A significant increase in the rate of deforestation is observed in the second half of the study period, where much of the loss occurs at the western borders along with Afghanistan. The current study is the first systematic and comprehensive effort to map changes to forest cover in Northern Pakistan. Deforestation hotspots identified at the sub-district level provide important insight into deforestation patterns, which may facilitate the development of appropriate forest conservation and management strategies in the country.

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“…More than 75 per cent of the population of Nepal relies on agriculture, and 64 per cent relies on fuelwood for cooking (CBS 2011). Three and half hectares of forests are required to maintain and protect farming of 1 hectare land in the mid hills of Nepal (Niraula et al 2013). REDD+ should adjust to these social practices, which are presently non-discourses in order to be successfully implemented.…”

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Discourse Analysis as a Means to Scrutinize REDD+: An Issue of Current Forest Management Debate of Nepal

Poudel

Aase

2016

J. Forest & Livelihood

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This article shows how discourse analysis can be a methodological tool to scrutinize texts under the aegis of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, sustainable management of forest, and conservation and enhancement of carbon (REDD+). A discourse is a perspective of an individual or an organization, which always tries to achieve a dominant position in the society. Texts used in discourses are impossible to understand properly in isolation. They are the reflections of social practices. Discourses, which contain multiple meanings, are also used as devices to make texts meaningful in regular communication. Analysis of discourses is called discourse analysis. Laclau and Mouffe (1985) believe that social structures (norms, rules and institutions) are created by pre-existing discourses of society, thereby we humans conceive objective reality according to the existing discourses. Alternatively, Fairclough (1995) believes that discourses not only reflect social structure but are also bounded by them. Both perspectives have been used as methodologies to analyse discourses, nonetheless Fairclough's discourse analysis is more pragmatic than Laclau and Mouffee's. The term 'REDD+' implies a discourse about forming new forestry institution in developing countries like Nepal, which is articulated in the name of mitigating deteriorating climate of the world. We suggest combining both perspectives to scrutinize the issue like REDD+. We found that discourse analysis is a suitable method to scrutinize REDD+ in the Nepalese context where people consider forest as a vital source of earning livelihoods and the foundation of sustaining local environment.

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“…In recent years WorldView-2 provides hyper-spectral very high resolution (0.5 m) satellite imagery for the estimation of biomass at species level (Eckert, 2012;Latif et al, 2012;Mutanga et al, 2012). Micro level studies and visual interpretations revealed that Nepal's forest coverage and condition is significantly improving due to the community forestry intervention (Dongol, 2002 ;Bhattarai, 2008;Niraula et al, 2013) No doubt, Nepal is progressing in terms of preservation of forest and improvement of livelihood of local communities but still institutional step-ups are not fully functional to provide the incentive. Through this study we have observed and mapped enhancement in forest carbon, so performance based payment mechanism works very well.…”

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“…Of this, more than half of the world's forests has come under their control during the past 25 years (Sunderlin, 2008). In the world, Nepal is considered as a leader in community-based forest management (Pokharel, 2012) as in the 1990s Nepal's community forestry program (CFP) gained momentum after the government made special provisions for community forests in Section 5 of the Forest Act 1993 and Section 4 of Forest Regulation 1995 (DoF, 1995;HMG, 1995;Niraula et al, 2013). The main objective of the Nepal CFP is to achieve sustainable management of forest resources by converting accessible national forests into community forests (CFs) on a phase wise manner (DoF, 2012).…”

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“…The main objective of the Nepal CFP is to achieve sustainable management of forest resources by converting accessible national forests into community forests (CFs) on a phase wise manner (DoF, 2012). The approach is very successful, not only in restoring degraded sites, biodiversity, and improving the supply of forest products to people, but also in forming local level institutions for resource management and in improving the state of the environment (Poffenberger, 2006;Niraula et al, 2013;Mbaabu et al, 2014). Now recently, Nepal has been selected as one of the four countries for promoting forest conservation by controlling deforestation and degradation as well as profiting off forest carbon stocks (Report, 2014).…”

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Monitoring the performance of community forestry to achieve REDD+ goals through geospatial methods

Gilani

Gautam²,

Murthy

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Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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KEY WORDS: MRV, REDD+, community forests, linear regress model and biomass change ABSTRACT:Measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) is included in the Cancun, Mexico, in 2010 under climate change agreements, as one of the most critical elements necessary for the successful implementation of any reducing of emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries (REDD+) mechanism. Community forestry is recognised as a successful model for conserving forests, raising awareness among local people and decentralising the forest governance practices. In the world, Nepal is considered as a leader in community-based forest management. This study conducted in 16 community forests (2384.76 ha) of Kayar Khola watershed (8002 ha) of Chitwan district, Nepal. In this paper, satellite images IKONOS-2 (2002) and GeoEye-1 (2009GeoEye-1 ( & 2012 were used which have 1 m and 0.5 m ground spatial distance (GSD) respectively. Geographic information system (GIS) participatory approach was embraced for the boundaries delineation of community forests. Geographic object-based image analysis (GEOBIA) classification technique was performed and overall accuracy 94% with 92.91% producer's and 96. show the forest of the study area is not mature and has capacity to sequestrate more and more carbon in coming years. A linear regress model obtained (AGB = 0.0543*CPA -62.078 with R² = 0.76) by plotting the delineated crowns from satellite image and field based biomass values at 1ha grid. The present study was conducted in order to analyse, the performance of community forestry to achieve REDD+ goals by considering a sample of pilot project site in Nepal.* Corresponding author. This is useful to know for communication with the appropriate person in cases with more than one author.

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Measuring impacts of community forestry program through repeat photography and satellite remote sensing in the Dolakha district of Nepal

Cited by 126 publications

References 32 publications

Mapping Deforestation and Forest Degradation Patterns in Western Himalaya, Pakistan

Mapping Deforestation and Forest Degradation Patterns in Western Himalaya, Pakistan

Discourse Analysis as a Means to Scrutinize REDD+: An Issue of Current Forest Management Debate of Nepal

Monitoring the performance of community forestry to achieve REDD+ goals through geospatial methods

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