Evaluation of welfare functions of environmental amenities: A case of forest biomass fuels in Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Kijazi, Martin Herbert; Kant, Shashi

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011.09.016

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“…Evidence for the importance of cultural and socio‐economic factors, including economic incentives, in determining the adoption of conservation measures across various segments of society and various stakeholders (e.g. Durrant, 2004; Kijazi & Kant, 2011b; Kilima et al, 2014; Noe, 2014) further points to the need for societal participation.…”

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Stakeholder perspectives on nature, people and sustainability at Mount Kilimanjaro

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Effective approaches towards sustainability need to be informed by a diverse array of stakeholder perspectives. However, capturing these perspectives in a way that can be integrated with other forms of knowledge can represent a challenge. Here we present the first application of the conceptual framework of the Intergovernmental Science‐Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) to a participatory assessment of local perspectives on nature, people and sustainability on Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. This assessment was organized in the form of a participatory workshop with five different groups of stakeholders. Following this framework, we assembled information on the state of and trends in species diversity, Nature's Contributions to People (NCP), and on the main drivers of changes in species and habitats. Additionally, we gathered perspectives on the needs and opportunities for the sustainable management and conservation of natural resources from the individual to the international level. The various stakeholders agreed that both the condition and extent of the various habitats and NCP are declining. In line with available knowledge, the key direct drivers of change mentioned by the workshop participants were land use and climate change, whereas human population growth was singled out as the most important indirect driver. The most frequently suggested measures to address the observed decline in species diversity and its drivers were related to land and water management and to education and awareness raising. Yet, the stakeholder groups differed in the measures they suggested. The willingness of a diversity of knowledge holders to systematically engage in a structured discussion around all the elements of the IPBES framework provides support for its applicability in participatory workshops aimed at capturing nuanced and context‐based perspectives on social–ecological systems from informed stakeholders. The application of the IPBES framework enabled the comparability needed for developing narratives of stakeholder visions that can help identify new pathways towards sustainability and guide planning while retaining the context‐based nuances that remain unresolved with non‐participatory methods.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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“…Energy production from biomass is essential to achieve the existing energy and environmental goals (Suh, 2017). The consumption of energy from biomass can rouse financial development via creating new professions while also reducing the dependence of several countries on the import of fossil fuels (Al-Mulali et al, 2016), as well as many other advantages (Bandyopadhyay et al, 2011;Kijazi and Kant, 2011;Rovere et al, 2011).…”

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The global energy matrix and use of agricultural residues for bioenergy production: A review with inspiring insights that aim to contribute to deliver solutions for society and industrial sectors through suggestions for future research

Ribeiro

Braghini

2023

Waste Manag Res

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Promoting the use of renewable energy sources has become an important policy strategy for mitigating climate change and for providing better energy security and financial sustainability. To overcome the problems generated by non-renewable energy sources, it is essential to use new energy sources. A literature review was conducted to investigate and understand the opportunities for implementing new renewable energy sources. Agricultural residues have great potential to receive significant consideration worldwide as an alternative, sustainable, and green energy source. The use of agricultural residues for bioenergy generation is a broad and favourable scenario for exploration. This review identified potential and almost unexplored research approaches with the aim of contributing and promoting researchers to deliver technological solutions for the society and industrial sectors. For example, a potentially promising technological solution would be for industries that produce machinery and agricultural implements to adapt their harvesters for different grain crops, to collect these agricultural residues simultaneously during harvest and readily perform granulation, compaction (pressing), pelletizing or briquetting directly on the property. Further studies are required to investigate the use of agricultural residues for bioenergy generation, which can contribute to the diversification of the energy matrix. Accordingly, in this review, several challenges and future research perspectives have been presented, such as suggestions for future research on how to collect, transport, process, market and use these agricultural residues to generate bioenergy, aiming at reducing the dependence on fossil fuels.

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“…Moreover, the SUA research regulation and guidelines of 2019 and TARI Act of 2016 both emphasize the preservation of research data and other research materials but the documents are silent on methods of data preservation for ensuring long-term data access, sharing, and future reuse (DPRTC, 2019; URT, 2016). Despite previous literature available on data preservation in the study area (Agrawal, 2017; Chidi, 2017; FAO, 2017; Katabalwa et al, 2021; Kijazi, 2018; Mboera, 2015; Mushi et al, 2020; NBS, 2010; TMA, 2020), however, there is a paucity of information on agricultural research data preservation in agricultural research institutions in Tanzania. This study, therefore, aims at closing this information gap.…”

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Data preservation practices for enhancing agricultural research data usage among agricultural researchers in Tanzania

Mwinami

Dulle

Mtega

2022

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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The objective of this study was to investigate the role of research data preservation for enhanced data usage among agricultural researchers in Tanzania. Specifically, the study aimed to examine the data preservation methods used by agriculture researchers, find out how long agriculture researchers preserve their agriculture research data, and determine factors that influence agriculture researchers on their choice of data preservation methods for use. The study employed a cross-sectional research design. The study employed both qualitative and quantitative approaches. A survey was conducted to collect data in 11 research institutions. A simple random sampling technique was used to select 204 respondents from the study area while purposive sampling techniques were used to select 11 agriculture research institutions including 10 Tanzanian Agricultural Research Institution (TARI) centers, and Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA). Also, 12 respondents were selected purposively for an in-depth interview as key informants. The study adopted Data Curation Centre (DCC) Lifecycle Model to explain data preservation process. Findings indicated that a majority of more than 90% of researchers preferred to preserve their data using different storage devices such as field notebooks, computers, and institutional libraries. Moreover, findings indicated that about 74% of agricultural researchers preferred to preserve their data for more than 6 years after the end of the project. Findings also indicated factors that influence researchers in the choice of data preservation methods to be easy to reach, cost-effective storage devices, support to use the devices, adequate infrastructure for data preservation, and reliable power supply. It can be concluded that there is yet a great role of research data preservation in enhancing data usage among researchers in Tanzania. It is recommended that the government should establish an agricultural research data bank to guarantee permanent availability of data at all times when needed.

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Evaluation of welfare functions of environmental amenities: A case of forest biomass fuels in Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Cited by 9 publications

References 30 publications

Stakeholder perspectives on nature, people and sustainability at Mount Kilimanjaro

Stakeholder perspectives on nature, people and sustainability at Mount Kilimanjaro

The global energy matrix and use of agricultural residues for bioenergy production: A review with inspiring insights that aim to contribute to deliver solutions for society and industrial sectors through suggestions for future research

Data preservation practices for enhancing agricultural research data usage among agricultural researchers in Tanzania

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