Forest use strategies in watershed management and restoration: application to three small mountain watersheds in Latin America

Aguirre, Juan Ángel Mintegui; Sánchez, José Carlos Robredo; Aranoa, Carlos de Gonzalo; Rueda, P. Huelin; Fallas, Jorge A.; Cisneros, Félipe; Cisneros, Pedro; Urciuolo, Adriana Beatriz; Iturraspe, Rodolfo Javier

doi:10.4081/jae.2014.221

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“…The percentage of protected areas as one of the regional space utilization criteria reflects the importance of sustainable forest management. In this regard, forests regulate water flow and control soil erosion and sediment concentration [82,83].…”

Section: Monitoring and Evaluation (Monev) Of Watershed Managementmentioning

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A Chronicle of Indonesia’s Forest Management: A Long Step towards Environmental Sustainability and Community Welfare

Nugroho¹,

Indrajaya²,

Astana³

et al. 2023

Land

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Indonesia is the largest archipelagic country in the world, with 17,000 islands of varying sizes and elevations, from lowlands to very high mountains, stretching more than 5000 km eastward from Sabang in Aceh to Merauke in Papua. Although occupying only 1.3% of the world’s land area, Indonesia possesses the third-largest rainforest and the second-highest level of biodiversity, with very high species diversity and endemism. However, during the last two decades, Indonesia has been known as a country with a high level of deforestation, a producer of smoke from burning forests and land, and a producer of carbon emissions. The aim of this paper is to review the environmental history and the long process of Indonesian forest management towards achieving environmental sustainability and community welfare. To do this, we analyze the milestones of Indonesian forest management history, present and future challenges, and provide strategic recommendations toward a viable Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) system. Our review showed that the history of forestry management in Indonesia has evolved through a long process, especially related to contestation over the control of natural resources and supporting policies and regulations. During the process, many efforts have been applied to reduce the deforestation rate, such as a moratorium on permitting primary natural forest and peat land, land rehabilitation and soil conservation, environmental protection, and other significant regulations. Therefore, these efforts should be maintained and improved continuously in the future due to their significant positive impacts on a variety of forest areas toward the achievement of viable SFM. Finally, we conclude that the Indonesian government has struggled to formulate sustainable forest management policies that balance economic, ecological, and social needs, among others, through developing and implementing social forestry instruments, developing and implementing human resource capacity, increasing community literacy, strengthening forest governance by eliminating ambiguity and overlapping regulations, simplification of bureaucracy, revitalization of traditional wisdom, and fair law enforcement.

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Section: Monitoring and Evaluation (Monev) Of Watershed Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Chronicle of Indonesia’s Forest Management: A Long Step towards Environmental Sustainability and Community Welfare

Nugroho¹,

Indrajaya²,

Astana³

et al. 2023

Land

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“…Furthermore, the study shows that the micro-basin is less prone to have intense rain simultaneously over its entire surface [4]. The relief takes the determining character in erosive phenomena, because of the mass coefficient 101.79 km / km 2 and orographic coefficient with 0.11 km defined as rugged relief, this index combines both determining parameters in erosive processes both in the average height, slope, water potential and surface runoff flow [7]. In addition, the erosion and severity of these parameters can impact the water recharge zones, reducing the filter capacity of the water towards the internal layers and in the sources such as sedimentation, contaminating the water bodies by the dragging of agrochemicals, feces, garbage, etc [8].…”

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Biophysical and Socioeconomic Characterization of the Timari River Micro-basin in the Central Tropics of Peru

Erazo-Toscano

Alvarez-Montalván

Caballero-Salas

et al. 2022

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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The study was carried out in the Timari river micro-basin belonging to the Río Negro district of the Satipo province, with the objective of evaluating the influence of the vulnerability to contamination of surface water resources in the Timari-Río Negro river micro-basin. The results in the physical aspect were: area 1061.16 ha with length of channel 7.36 km and 44 tributaries, slope of the channel 12%, mean elevation of 1176.47 meters above sea level; the biophysical aspect presents: temperature from 19.87°C to 24.16°C, precipitation from 1693 mm to 2063 mm, evapotranspiration from 1083.31 mm to 1519.81 mm and slopes ranging from flat to steep. The population in the socioeconomic aspect presents 40% illiteracy and 60% some degree of education, productive activities are based 83% on agriculture and 17% trade, monoculture predominates with 60% and diversified crops at 40%. The flow rate was 0.248 m3 /s; while the raw surface water quality index presents 81.28 characterized as good quality and ends with 41.87 as poor quality.

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Forests and water in South America

Jones

Almeida²,

Cisneros

et al. 2016

Hydrological Processes

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South America is experiencing rapid change in forest cover, of both native and planted forest. Forest cover loss is primarily attributable to fire, logging, and conversion of native forest to agriculture, pasture, and forest plantations, and types of change vary within and among the many diverse types of forests in South America. Major changes in forest cover and growing policy concerns underscore an urgent need for research on sustainable forest management and water ecosystem services in South America. Differences in land ownership and management objectives create trade‐offs between wood production and water ecosystem services from forests. Work is needed to quantify how forest change and management affect ecosystem services, such as wood production versus water provision. Current scientific understanding of forest management effects on water ecosystem services in South America has important limitations, including a scarcity of long‐term records and few long‐term integrated watershed studies. Industry, government, universities, and local communities should collaborate on integrated applied studies of forests and water. Data archiving and publically available data are required. The creation of national networks and a multi‐country South America network to identify and implement common water research protocols, share results, and explore their implications would promote common and well‐supported policies. Hydrologists working in South America are well placed to tackle the challenges and opportunities for collaborative research that will maintain the intrinsic values and water ecosystem services provided by South America's forests.

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Forest use strategies in watershed management and restoration: application to three small mountain watersheds in Latin America

Cited by 4 publications

References 16 publications

A Chronicle of Indonesia’s Forest Management: A Long Step towards Environmental Sustainability and Community Welfare

A Chronicle of Indonesia’s Forest Management: A Long Step towards Environmental Sustainability and Community Welfare

Biophysical and Socioeconomic Characterization of the Timari River Micro-basin in the Central Tropics of Peru

Forests and water in South America

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