Economic Benefits and Costs of Sustainable Land Management Technologies: An Analysis of WOCAT's Global Data

Giger, Markus; Liniger, Hanspeter; Sauter, Caspar; Schwilch, Gudrun

doi:10.1002/ldr.2429

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“…Based on such assessments, conclusions can be drawn as to whether and how the documented practices address key threats in drylands, i.e., by means of improved water management, reduced soil degradation, diversified and enhanced production, resilience towards climate change and variability, and by providing sociocultural benefits including conflict mitigation and prevention of out-migration (Giger et al, 2015;Schwilch et al, 2014).…”

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Soil indicators to assess the effectiveness of restoration strategies in dryland ecosystems

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Abstract. Soil indicators may be used for assessing both land suitability for restoration and the effectiveness of restoration strategies in restoring ecosystem functioning and services. In this review paper, several soil indicators, which can be used to assess the effectiveness of ecological restoration strategies in dryland ecosystems at different spatial and temporal scales, are discussed. The selected indicators represent the different viewpoints of pedology, ecology, hydrology, and land management. Two overall outcomes stem from the review. (i) The success of restoration projects relies on a proper understanding of their ecology, namely the relationships between soil, plants, hydrology, climate, and land management at different scales, which are particularly complex due to the heterogeneous pattern of ecosystems functioning in drylands.(ii) The selection of the most suitable soil indicators follows a clear identification of the different and sometimes competing ecosystem services that the project is aimed at restoring.

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Soil indicators to assess the effectiveness of restoration strategies in dryland ecosystems

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“…Although WH are low-cost technologies, they still require some initial investment for construction, operation, and maintenance of the structures. Moreover, socio-economic benefits gained by implementing WH techniques are often only fully realized in the long term [57], and community involvement and participation in the planning, design, monitoring, and evaluation in most WH projects is inadequate.…”

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Multifaceted Impacts of Sustainable Land Management in Drylands: A Review

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Biophysical restoration or rehabilitation measures of land have demonstrated to be effective in many scientific projects and small-scale environmental experiments. However circumstances such as poverty, weak policies, or inefficient scientific knowledge transmission can hinder the effective upscaling of land restoration and the long term maintenance of proven sustainable use of soil and water. This may be especially worrisome in lands with harsh environmental conditions. This review covers recent efforts in landscape restoration and rehabilitation with a functional perspective aiming to simultaneously achieve ecosystem sustainability, economic efficiency, and social wellbeing. Water management and rehabilitation of ecosystem services in croplands, rangelands, forests, and coastlands are reviewed. The joint analysis of such diverse ecosystems provides a wide perspective to determine: (i) multifaceted impacts on biophysical and socio-economic factors; and (ii) elements influencing effective upscaling of sustainable land management practices. One conclusion can be highlighted: voluntary adoption is based on different pillars, i.e. external material and economic support, and spread of success information at the local scale to demonstrate the multidimensional benefits of sustainable land management. For the successful upscaling of land management, more attention must be paid to the social system from the first involvement stage, up to the long term maintenance.

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“…A recent analysis on World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies' global data (Giger et al, 2015) showed that economic benefits are considered to be the main driver for the implementation of sustainable land management practices among World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies' users. Nevertheless, environmental concerns and compliance with cultural norms were also perceived of high value by the users.…”

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“…Although active stakeholder involvement in rangeland management programmes continues to increase (Cocklin et al, 2007;Fernández-Giménez et al, 2015;Giger et al, 2015), there is not much information available on the social-ecological attainments achieved, in particular the expected behavioural changes of the land users (e.g. Giger et al, 2015;Wang et al, 2015).…”

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Successes and Failures in Rangeland Restoration: An Icelandic Case Study

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Rangeland restoration is a multilayered process aimed at improving land condition, often parallel to utilization. To ensure the long‐term progress that restoration programmes are expected to deliver, they must be designed, implemented and maintained in partnership with local stakeholders. Each programme should have clear goals, followed up by measurable ecological and/or socio‐economic objectives, to facilitate their evaluation in the long run. In this research, we examine if a large‐scale rangeland restoration programme in Iceland had contributed to the expected attitudinal and behavioural changes among the participating sheep farmers, as described in the initial objectives of the programme. A survey, based on a questionnaire on sheep farmers' attitude and behaviour related to rangeland restoration and land management practices, was used to gauge the perception of participating farmers, in comparison with non‐participating farmers. Our results show that participating farmers are more aware of the potential of rangeland restoration and are more motivated to engage in further collaboration, when compared with non‐participating farmers. Nevertheless, our results indicate that, despite extensive areas of degraded land already successfully treated within the restoration programme, the programme has not facilitated other anticipated attitudinal and behavioural changes among its participants as expected. Furthermore, it seems that the direct incentives provided by the programme are pushing participating farmers towards favouring agronomic instead of ecological approaches in their restoration activities, when compared with the non‐participating farmers. Our results also point to several organizational errors embedded in the programme management that might be halting its further progress. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Economic Benefits and Costs of Sustainable Land Management Technologies: An Analysis of WOCAT's Global Data

Cited by 59 publications

References 53 publications

Soil indicators to assess the effectiveness of restoration strategies in dryland ecosystems

Soil indicators to assess the effectiveness of restoration strategies in dryland ecosystems

Multifaceted Impacts of Sustainable Land Management in Drylands: A Review

Successes and Failures in Rangeland Restoration: An Icelandic Case Study

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