Monitoring systems to improve forest conditions

Rasmussen, Laura Vang; Jepsen, Martin Rudbeck

doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2018.03.011

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“…Land 2024, 13, 205 3 of 20 In this context, land monitoring efforts are essential to implement policies that can ensure sustainable development [34]. Land use policy instruments raised interest in their form of implementation and their potential effectiveness, depending to some extent on land monitoring systems to track intervention performance and forest condition [35]. Therefore, land use monitoring should focus on data collection for evidence-based policy improvement and adaptive management, as well as for securing the objective fulfilment of interventions.…”

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Assessing Peru’s Land Monitoring System Contributions towards Fulfilment of Its International Environmental Commitments

Boza Espinoza,

Salinas,

Cosio

et al. 2024

Land

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Land use change (LUC) is recognized as one of the major drivers of the global loss of biodiversity and represents a major threat to ecosystems. Deforestation through LUC is mainly driven by fire regimes, logging, farming (cropping and ranching), and illegal mining, which are closely linked with environmental management policies. Efficient land management strategies, however, require reliable and robust information. Land monitoring is one such approach that can provide critical information to coordinate policymaking at the global, regional, and local scales, and enable a programmed implementation of shared commitments under the Rio Conventions: the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), and Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Here we use Peru as a case study to evaluate how a land monitoring system enables environmental policy decisions which appear in the country’s international commitment reports. Specifically, we synthesize how effective the ongoing land monitoring system has been in responding to current and future environmental challenges; and how improvements in land monitoring can assist in the achievement of national commitments under the Rio Conventions. We find that Peruvian policies and commitments need to be improved to be consistent with the 1.5 °C temperature limit of the Paris agreement. Regarding the Aichi targets, Peru has achieved 17% land area with sustainable management; however, the funding deficit is a great challenge. Even though Peru commits to reducing GHG emissions by reducing LUC and improving agricultural and land use forestry practices, it needs policy improvements in relation to land tenure, governance, and equity. Potential explanations for the observed shortcomings include the fragmentation and duplication of government roles across sectors at both a national and regional scale.

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Assessing Peru’s Land Monitoring System Contributions towards Fulfilment of Its International Environmental Commitments

Boza Espinoza,

Salinas,

Cosio

et al. 2024

Land

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“…Forest governance plays a crucial mediating role in the relationships between forests and livelihoods, determining who has rights to use and make decisions about the forest, as well as how those rights are exercised (Miller et al 2021). While a wide body of research demonstrates 3 that sustainable management of forests requires careful monitoring and sanctioning of sustainable resource use (Chhatre andAgrawal 2008, Rasmussen andJepsen 2018), flexibility in that monitoring and sanctioning process during times of shock or crisis may be crucial to support livelihoods while maintaining the legitimacy of forest governance (Cox et al 2010).…”

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Indian forest governance during the COVID-19 pandemic

Rana¹,

Fleischman

2023

int. forest. rev.

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The unexpected nature of COVID-19 tested the institutional strength and resilience of state agencies across the world. Preliminary evidence is presented on how reduced mobility due to COVID-19 affected the functioning of the Forest Department in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh and triggered changes in forest use by local communities as perceived by forest officials. Our evidence shows mixed outcomes in terms of the effectiveness of the forest bureaucrats in handling the COVID-19 pandemic as assessed through their own perceptions and other forestry records. The positive and negative elements relating to the bureaucratic forest administration during the COVID-19 lockdown are presented, and some possible reasons behind these varying patterns across the state of Himachal Pradesh are suggested. Lessons drawn from the COVID-19 crisis that can help guide forest bureaucracies to deal effectively with unpredictable events in the future are presented.

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“…Toward this purpose, forest monitoring was established as the main tool for studying the dynamics of forest structure and functioning and its response to anthropogenic influences [3,5]. The necessity of this tool is highlighted by decisional factors' requirements and forest governance [6]. Due to the high Forests 2021, 12, 1269 2 of 24 complexity of the forest dynamics, a high amount of warranted information is needed in the characterization process.…”

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Applications of TLS and ALS in Evaluating Forest Ecosystem Services: A Southern Carpathians Case Study

Dobre

Pascu

Leca

et al. 2021

Forests

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Forests play an important role in biodiversity conservation, being one of the main providers of ecosystem services, according to the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity. The functions and ecosystem services provided by forests are various concerning the natural capital and the socio-economic systems. Past decades of remote-sensing advances make it possible to address a large set of variables, including both biophysical parameters and ecological indicators, that characterize forest ecosystems and their capacity to supply services. This research aims to identify and implement existing methods that can be used for evaluating ecosystem services by employing airborne and terrestrial stationary laser scanning on plots from the Southern Carpathian mountains. Moreover, this paper discusses the adaptation of field-based approaches for evaluating ecological indicators to automated processing techniques based on airborne and terrestrial stationary laser scanning (ALS and TLS). Forest ecosystem functions, such as provisioning, regulation, and support, and the overall forest condition were assessed through the measurement and analysis of stand-based biomass characteristics (e.g., trees’ heights, wood volume), horizontal structure indices (e.g., canopy cover), and recruitment-mortality processes as well as overall health status assessment (e.g., dead trees identification, deadwood volume). The paper, through the implementation of the above-mentioned analyses, facilitates the development of a complex multi-source monitoring approach as a potential solution for assessing ecosystem services provided by the forest, as well as a basis for further monetization approaches.

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Monitoring systems to improve forest conditions

Cited by 8 publications

References 49 publications

Assessing Peru’s Land Monitoring System Contributions towards Fulfilment of Its International Environmental Commitments

Assessing Peru’s Land Monitoring System Contributions towards Fulfilment of Its International Environmental Commitments

Indian forest governance during the COVID-19 pandemic

Applications of TLS and ALS in Evaluating Forest Ecosystem Services: A Southern Carpathians Case Study

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