Quantitative Techniques in Participatory Forest Management

Martínez-Falero, Eugenio; Martín-Fernández, Susana; García‐Abril, Antonio

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“…In recent studies, the scope of participatory management has been extended to projects involving multiple stakeholders. For this reason, a large number of studies applying participatory management can be found in the field of environmental sciences, where the natural and the human system is linked and different groups expand on mutually agreed solutions in a bid to protect the environment [27,28]. Nutrition and health sciences is another field where participatory management is applied, as researchers need to understand patients' habits and attitudes in order to identify and offer adequate solutions [29].…”

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A Participatory Approach to Minimizing Food Waste in the Food Industry—A Manual for Managers

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Abstract:Based on their experiences gained in 15 companies in the catering sector and the bakery industry, the authors present a participatory concept to reduce food waste in the food industry. This five-phase concept, adapted to the PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) cycle applied in the Total Quality Management, involves a participatory approach where employees are integrated into the process of developing and implementing measures to counteract food waste. The authors describe how the participatory approach can be used to raise awareness of the topic of food waste to improve employee commitment and responsibility. As a result, the authors further offer a Manual for Managers wishing to reduce food waste in their respective organizations. This manual includes information on the methodologies applied in each step of the improvement cycle. It also describes why the steps are necessary, and how results can be documented. The participatory concept and the Manual for Managers contribute to reducing food waste and to enhancing resource efficiency in the food industry.

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Section: Overview Of the Participatory Conceptmentioning

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A Participatory Approach to Minimizing Food Waste in the Food Industry—A Manual for Managers

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“…In this study, we followed the second approach. Several remotely sensed vegetation indices have been used as ecophysiological indicators (Manzanera et al 2013). These indices are associated with plant water stress (Suárez et al 2008) or radiation use efficiency (Garbulsky et al 2011).…”

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Sap flow, leaf-level gas exchange and spectral responses to drought in Pinus sylvestris, Pinus pinea and Pinus halepensis

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In a climate change scenario, Mediterranean forest species such as pines may be endangered by rising temperatures and reduced precipitation, thus calling for studies on the transpiration and water balance in pines. In this paper, the response of young plants of Pinus sylvestris L., Pinus pinea L. and Pinus halepensis Mill. to different irrigation treatments has been studied. Significant differences were found in water potential, sap flow, leaf-level gas exchange and spectral variables. P. sylvestris had higher pre-dawn and midday water potentials, sap flow rates and leaf-level gas exchange rates compared to the other two species in well-watered conditions. Vapor pressure gradient correlated with stomatal conductance, net assimilation and transpiration, but the association between stomatal conductance and sap flow was weak. The environmental variables more strongly associated with sap flow were solar radiation and reference evapo-transpiration, especially in the well-watered plants, but those associations were weaker in the stressed plants. All three pine species showed the isohydric, drought-avoiding strategy common in the genus Pinus, maintaining relatively high water potentials in dry conditions. Nevertheless, P. halepensis showed a water-saving strategy, with a stomatal closure behavior under drought. Stomatal regulation was less strict in P. sylvestris, closer to a water-spending pattern, while P. pinea showed an intermediate behavior. Significant differences were recorded among species in spectral reflectance in the visible and infra-red regions. Photochemical Reflectance Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index and combinations of other ratios permitted the discrimination among the three pine species. These spectral variables showed association with sap flow rate, water potential and leaflevel gas exchange variables. Both cluster analysis and k-means classification discriminated Scots pine and Aleppo pine in two different groups. On the other hand, Stone pine showed differences in spectral behavior depending on the hydric status of the plants. Well-watered Stone pine plants had the same spectral behavior as Scots pine, while the plants subjected to drought stress were closer to Aleppo pine plants in spectral response. These findings may help to quantify the impacts of early and mid-summer water deficit on Mediterranean pines in future climate regimes.

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“…Public participation, as a key element of environmental decision-making, is a very recent idea and policy trend in the West. Participatory approaches to forest management were introduced in the 1970s, before which forestry management decisions tended to be top-down (Martinez-Falero et al, 2013). Major international initiatives and laws have only been adopted in the last couple of decades, for example the 1992 UN Rio Declaration, Agenda 21, the 1998 UN Aarhus Convention or the European Water Framework Directive 2000.…”

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“…Despite the European Union being at the forefront of promoting and adopting participatory natural resource management practices, implementation has been rather variable across countries, and participation is often limited to information and consultation of stakeholders, without having a significant impact on policy design; the shift from centralized resource management towards more collaboration has been marginal, and power remains largely concentrated (e.g. Benson et al, 2012;van der Heijden and ten Heuvelhof, 2012;Martinez-Falero et al, 2013). Environmental policies outside Europe also remain highly path-dependent, and the history of US environmental policy is 'a story of perennial conflicts among organized advocates of various specific commercial or appreciative uses of natural assets' (Kamieniecki and Kraft, 2012: 41).…”

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“…Major constraints on behavioural and institutional change include: a lack of incentives on the demand side and policy-makers' inclination to maintain the status quo; lack of interest in participation from local communities; strong path dependency of existing policies and local institutions; limited political, economic and administrative resources to implement the new policies; and high transaction costs of institutional adjustment (Saarikoski et al, 2010;Benson et al, 2012;van der Heijden and ten Heuvelhof, 2012;Martinez-Falero et al, 2013). Resilience of existing institutional structures can lead to situations in which de jure introduction of wider public participation coexists with only very limited de facto involvement and decision-making role of the public (van der Heijden and ten Heuvelhof, 2012).…”

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Participatory Forest Management: The experience of foreign‐funded programmes in the Kyrgyz Republic

Ulybina

2014

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This paper studies the experience of foreign‐funded programmes aimed at establishing participatory forest management (PFM), primarily in the walnut‐fruit forests of Kyrgyzstan. Having reviewed programme reports, non‐governmental organization evidence and legislation, we argue that the poor performance of these programmes is due largely to incorrect starting assumptions about the feasibility of PFM in the Kyrgyz context and a lack of analysis about locally appropriate forestry regimes. We show that there have been no significant preconditions for realization of PFM mechanisms in the history of Kyrgyz forestry, and their realization has been hampered by the Soviet legacy, strong informal institutions and poverty. We argue that PFM has been introduced without a clear understanding of how it fits in the overall vision of the country's development. Moreover, PFM is not fit for purpose in Kyrgyzstan, as it does not address the root macro‐economic and environmental causes of existing forestry problems. The capacity of local communities should not be over‐emphasized where cross‐sectoral national or even cross‐border efforts are required. Mutual, joint learning of Western donors with local experts is key, and should not be replaced by automatic adoption of imported concepts. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

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Quantitative Techniques in Participatory Forest Management

Cited by 5 publications

References 561 publications

A Participatory Approach to Minimizing Food Waste in the Food Industry—A Manual for Managers

A Participatory Approach to Minimizing Food Waste in the Food Industry—A Manual for Managers

Sap flow, leaf-level gas exchange and spectral responses to drought in Pinus sylvestris, Pinus pinea and Pinus halepensis

Participatory Forest Management: The experience of foreign‐funded programmes in the Kyrgyz Republic

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