Towards transferable functions for extraction of Non-timber Forest Products: A case study on charcoal production in Tanzania

Schaafsma, Marije; Morse-Jones, Sian; Posen, Paulette; Swetnam, Ruth D.; Balmford, Andrew; Bateman, Ian J.; Burgess, Neil D.; Chamshama, S.A.O.; Fisher, Brendan; Green, R.E.; Hepelwa, Aloyce; Hernández-Sirvent, A.; Kajembe, G. C.; Kulindwa, Kassim; Lund, Jens Friis; Mbwambo, Lawrence; Meilby, Henrik; Ngaga, Yonika M.; Theilade, Ida; Treue, Thorsten; Vyamana, Vincent G.; Turner, R. Kerry

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2012.04.026

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“…As a result of increasing urbanisation and the depletion of coastal woodlands around Dar es Salaam, charcoal production is expected to place even greater pressure on woodlands and forests in the EAM in the future." (Schaafsma et al 2012, p. 59-60) Although credible evidence is offered to support arguments that present charcoal production models are unsustainable due to the high levels of deforestation caused by increasing demand, Schaafsma et al (2012) found that without proper compensation schemes for forgone economic benefit, it makes little sense for villages to forgo charcoal production for forest conservation.…”

Section: Production and Utilization Of Charcoalmentioning

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Enabling legal frameworks for sustainable land-use investments in Tanzania: Legal assessment report

Kibugi¹,

Wardell²,

Cordonnier-Segger³

et al. 2015

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Section: Production and Utilization Of Charcoalmentioning

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Enabling legal frameworks for sustainable land-use investments in Tanzania: Legal assessment report

Kibugi¹,

Wardell²,

Cordonnier-Segger³

et al. 2015

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“…Natural forests which are predominantly located along the EAMs cover about 3%. The area of the EAMs is a globally important eco-region [38,39] and one of the world's hotspots of biological diversity [40,41]. Madoffe et al [42] reported that in the year 1900 there was three times the amount of natural forest cover compared to the 2000s.…”

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“…Schaafsma et al [41] found that commercial charcoal production is still practiced in the lower woodland areas of the EAMs (with some production centres within the boundaries of the EAM blocks), thus causing degradation of woodland in the EAMs. FBD [75] also reported that the EAMs exhibit rapid land cover change, having lost 11% of their primary forests and 41% of their woodland vegetation since 1975.…”

Section: Fifth Principal Component: Long-term Trend Of Land Usementioning

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Evaluation of Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Remotely Sensed Evapotranspiration to Infer Information about Hydrological Behaviour in a Data-Scarce Region

Wambura

Dietrich

Lischeid

2017

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Information about the hydrological behaviour of a river basin prior to setting up, calibrating and validating a distributed hydrological model requires extensive datasets that are hardly available for many parts of the world due to insufficient monitoring networks. In this study, the focus was on prevailing spatio-temporal patterns of remotely sensed evapotranspiration (ET) that enabled conclusions to be drawn about the hydrological behaviour and spatial peculiarities of a river basin at rather high spatial resolution. The prevailing spatio-temporal patterns of ET were identified using a principal component analysis of a time series of 644 images of MODIS ET covering the Wami River basin (Tanzania) between the years 2000 and 2013. The time series of the loadings on the principal components were analysed for seasonality and significant long-term trends. The spatial patterns of principal component scores were tested for significant correlation with elevations and slopes, and for differences between different soil texture and land use classes. The results inferred that the temporal and spatial patterns of ET were related to those of preceding rainfalls. At the end of the dry season, high ET was maintained only in areas of shallow groundwater and in cloud forest nature reserves. A region of clear reduction of ET in the long-term was related to massive land use change. The results also confirmed that most soil texture and land use classes differed significantly. Moreover, ET was exceptionally high in natural forests and loam soil, and very low in bushland and sandy-loam soil. Clearly, this approach has shown great potential of publicly available remote sensing data in providing a sound basis for water resources management as well as for distributed hydrological models in data-scarce river basins at lower latitudes.

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“…Boxes 1 Beekeeping in Tanzania 10 2 Charcoal production in the East Arc Mountain Blocks (Schaafsma et al 2012 Relevant international standards suggest that sustainable investments integrate socioeconomic and environmental concerns, bound together by the rule of law. This calls for landscapes governance, which considers all stakeholders, interests and competing resource uses, under which the traditional model of investment decisions based solely on economic goals is broadened considerably to place communities and environmental concerns at the very heart of the process.…”

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Building enabling legal frameworks for sustainable land-use investments in Zambia, Tanzania and Mozambique: A synthesis

Dalupan¹,

Haywood²,

Wardell³

et al. 2015

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Towards transferable functions for extraction of Non-timber Forest Products: A case study on charcoal production in Tanzania

Cited by 58 publications

References 54 publications

Enabling legal frameworks for sustainable land-use investments in Tanzania: Legal assessment report

Enabling legal frameworks for sustainable land-use investments in Tanzania: Legal assessment report

Evaluation of Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Remotely Sensed Evapotranspiration to Infer Information about Hydrological Behaviour in a Data-Scarce Region

Building enabling legal frameworks for sustainable land-use investments in Zambia, Tanzania and Mozambique: A synthesis

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