Differences in stakeholder perceptions about native forest: implications for developing a restoration program

Castillo, Jessica A.; Smith‐Ramírez, Cecilia; Claramunt, Vivianne

doi:10.1111/rec.13293

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“…Restoration is a social construct (van Oosten 2013) with a contentious history. What qualifies as restoration depends on what outcomes are valued from the perspectives of which stakeholder (Castillo et al 2021). Similarly, whether a landscape is deemed degraded or not is a subjective judgement and depends on where a temporal baseline is placed (Lélé 1994).…”

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How Social Considerations Improve the Equity and Effectiveness of Ecosystem Restoration

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Ecosystem restoration is an important means to address global sustainability challenges. However, scientific and policy discourse often overlooks the social processes that influence the equity and effectiveness of restoration interventions. In the present article, we outline how social processes that are critical to restoration equity and effectiveness can be better incorporated in restoration science and policy. Drawing from existing case studies, we show how projects that align with local people's preferences and are implemented through inclusive governance are more likely to lead to improved social, ecological, and environmental outcomes. To underscore the importance of social considerations in restoration, we overlay existing global restoration priority maps, population, and the Human Development Index (HDI) to show that approximately 1.4 billion people, disproportionately belonging to groups with low HDI, live in areas identified by previous studies as being of high restoration priority. We conclude with five action points for science and policy to promote equity-centered restoration.

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“…Such a dilemma is managed in forest restoration programmes by allowing many seedlings to emerge and grow and later subjecting them to selective thinning (Cameron, 2002). However, in dryland restoration with limited funds, such additional cost and labour should be tailored to the purpose and interest of the restoration project and the stakeholders (Castillo et al, 2021).…”

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Native bacteria and cyanobacteria can influence seedling emergence and growth of native plants used in dryland restoration

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Journal of Applied Ecology

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1. Seed-based ecosystem restoration has huge potential to restore degraded drylands. However, fewer than 10% of directly sown seeds transition to established seedlings. One of the potential factors restricting plant establishment in degraded soils is the low abundance and diversity of native soil micro-organisms.In this study, we investigated whether returning indigenous bacteria and cyanobacteria consortia to degraded dryland soils improved seedling emergence, survival and growth of native plants.2. We inoculated 'culturable whole soil' native heterotrophic bacteria and biocrust cyanobacteria individually and as a mixed inoculant into extruded pellets containing Acacia inaequilatera (Fabaceae) and Triodia epactia (Poaceae) seeds. The pellets were planted in an active minefield for 28 weeks and seedling emergence and total biomass of plants were determined.3. Cyanobacteria and bacteria inoculants increased the emergence of A. inaequilatera by 55% and 48%, respectively. Seedling emergence in T. epactia was increased by 20% by cyanobacteria but was not increased by bacteria. The only effect of inoculation on seedling survival or mass per surviving seedling in either species was an 11% reduction of the growth of T. epactia seedlings that were inoculated with cyanobacteria. Synthesis and applications:Our results suggest that the benefit of microorganisms on plant establishment is both species specific and life stage specific, with particularly strong benefits in the early stages of recruitment. Our experiment was conducted under shade and with additional water, so a worthwhile future direction would be to quantify the effect of inoculation under unmodified

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“…Incorporating social and economic criteria on feasibility and cost/benefit of restoration is fundamental in order to identify areas to be restored that will be viable and supported through time. Variables such as land tenure, pressures on land use conversion to productive uses, opportunity cost of land, poverty, economic dependence on land's income, social conflicts, among others, should be taken into account, especially in countries where there is still high exploitation and dependence on natural resources (Smith‐Ramírez et al 2019; Castillo et al 2020; Borda‐Niño et al 2021; Crouzeilles et al 2021). As also including the assessment of social capital in local communities had proven to be importance for the success of restoration and agroecological initiatives (Galicia‐Gallardo et al 2018; Ding et al 2021).…”

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The need for holistic approach in the identification of priority areas to restore: a review

Castillo‐Mandujano

Smith‐Ramírez

2022

Restoration Ecology

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Several authors have recommended that the incorporation of different stakeholders and the implementation of a holistic approach including social, economic, and ecological components be considered critical factors for the long-term success of restoration programs. These recommendations are especially important for identifying priority areas to restore. We conducted a review of scientific studies on the identification of priority areas for restoration in terrestrial biomes with the objective of determining whether these considerations have been taken into account over time. Our main questions were: (1) What is the context, publication year, journals, author and co-author affiliation of these published studies? (2) Have stakeholders been involved in the identification of priority areas for restoration? (3) What have been the main goals for the identification of priority areas for restoration? (4) What are the main criteria used to prioritize areas? Has the inclusion of social and economic criteria increased over time? We analyzed all the scientific studies about this topic published between 2008 and 2018. We found 64 studies, of which 70.3% did not incorporate stakeholders whatsoever in the identification of priority areas for restoration and 18.8% of them considered only experts as stakeholders. Approximately 87.5% of the studies had biodiversity conservation as their main goal; 10.9% also included social goals and 9.4% socioeconomic goals. All the studies considered ecological criteria, and the main criterion was to increase landscape connectivity. We conclude that there is still a need for greater inclusion of other approaches besides ecology in the identification of priority areas for restoration.

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Differences in stakeholder perceptions about native forest: implications for developing a restoration program

Cited by 14 publications

References 53 publications

How Social Considerations Improve the Equity and Effectiveness of Ecosystem Restoration

How Social Considerations Improve the Equity and Effectiveness of Ecosystem Restoration

Native bacteria and cyanobacteria can influence seedling emergence and growth of native plants used in dryland restoration

The need for holistic approach in the identification of priority areas to restore: a review

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