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1 Gupta, R. K.; Chauhan, A. 1998. Biodiversity and forest conservation for ecological sustainability of the Himalaya watersheds. In Bhushan, L. S.; Abrol, I. P.; Rao, M. S. R. M. (Eds.), Soil and water conservation: Challenges and opportunities - Volume 2. New Delhi, India: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd. pp.1535-1545.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.4 G000 BHU Record No: H022766)
2 Gradwohl, J.; Greenberg, R. 1988. Saving the tropical forests. London, UK: Earthscan. 207p.: ill.; 19.5cm.
Natural resources ; Forest conservation ; Forest management ; Sustainable agriculture ; Ecology ; Rain forests
(Location: IWMI-SEA Call no: 333.75160913 GG50 GRA Record No: BKK-110)
3 Gunatilleke, N.; Jayasuriya, M.; Weerakoon, D.; Gunatilleke, S.; Ranwala, S.; Perera, D.; Wattavidanege, J.; Manamendraarachchi, K.; De Silva, M. A. T.; Wijesinghe, L. 2014. Sri Lanka's forests: nature at your service. Commemorating the decade of biodiversity. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science (SLAAS). 155p.
Natural resources ; Forest resources ; Forest cover ; Forest ecology ; Forest degradation ; Forest conservation ; Plants ; Species ; Deforestation ; Vegetation ; Wild animals ; Biodiversity ; Environmental effects ; Human behaviour ; Archaeology ; Water resources ; Catchment areas ; Soil conservation / Sri Lanka / Sinharaja / Kanneliya
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.75 G744 GUN Record No: H046774)
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4 Poffenberger, M. (Ed.) 2013. Cambodia's contested forest domain: the role of community forestry in the new millennium. Manila, Philippines: Ateneo de Manila University Press. 304p. (Asian Studies)
Forest conservation ; Natural resources ; Sustainable forest management ; Community forestry ; Communities ; Ethnic groups ; Indigenous peoples ; Forest policy ; Legal aspects ; Deforestation ; Forest degradation ; Climate change ; Development projects ; Ecology ; Land use ; Living standards ; Lakes ; Fisheries ; Case studies / Cambodia / Tonle Sap Lake / Oddar Meanchey Province / Kompong Phluk / Ratanakiri
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 634.92 G700 POF Record No: H046819)
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5 Sri Lanka. Biodiversity Secretraiat. Ministry of Environment & Renewable Energy. 2014. Guide to mangroves of Sri Lanka. Bttaramulla, Sri Lanka: Biodiversity Secretraiat. Ministry of Environment & Renewable Energy. 70p.
Mangroves ; Environmental flows ; Biodiversity ; Ecosystems ; Vegetation ; Salinity ; Wetlands ; Marshes ; Forest conservation / Sri Lanka
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 583.763 G744 BIO Record No: H047220)
6 Amare, D.; Mekuria, Wolde; Teklewold, T.; Belay, B.; Teshome, A.; Yitaferu, B.; Tessema, T.; Tegegn, B. 2016. Perception of local community and the willingness to pay to restore church forests: the case of Dera district, northwestern Ethiopia. Forests, Trees and Livelihoods, 25(3):173-186. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14728028.2015.1133330]
Local community ; Forest management ; Forest conservation ; Biodiversity ; Economic aspects ; Living standards ; Land ownership ; Households ; Environmental degradation ; Stakeholders / Ethiopia / Dera District
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047538)
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In the Ethiopian highlands, church forests have a substantial contribution to landscape restoration, and conservation of endangered indigenous tree species and biodiversity. However, the environmental and economic benefits of church forests are declining due to a combination of economic, environmental, and cultural factors. This study was conducted in Dera district, Ethiopia, to assess the perception of local communities on church forests and investigate the willingness of local communities to pay to manage and protect church forests. We used household survey and focus group discussion to gather data. Contingent valuation method and the Heckman two-step economic model were used to analyze data. Considerable proportion of the respondents (35%) mentioned several types of benefits that can be derived from church forests including fodder, fuelwood, tree seeds and seedlings, conservation of biodiversity, and improvement of the amount and distribution of rainfall. Respondents are also aware that sustainable management of church forests is essential to maintain or enhance the ecosystem services that can be obtained from existing church forests. Protection, fencing, plantation, and expansion of church forests were among the different management options suggested by the respondents. The majority (70%) of the communities are willing to contribute cash. On average, the farmers are willing to contribute ETB 32 (i.e., US$ 1.66 [Based on the exchange rate on 12 February 2014.]). Age, education, access to extension services, and amount of benefits derived from church forests were positively and significantly (p < 0.05) correlated with the willingness to pay. Providing training on forest management, putting a strong informal institution such as bylaws, and designing ways of moving from conservation to economic benefit are essential to restore and sustain church forests.
7 Lacombe, Guillaume; Ribolzi, O.; de Rouw, A.; Pierret, A.; Latsachak, K.; Silvera, N.; Dinh, R. P.; Orange, D.; Janeau, J.-L.; Soulileuth, B.; Robain, H.; Taccoen, A.; Sengphaathith, P.; Mouche, E.; Sengtaheuanghoung, O.; Tran Duc, T.; Valentin, C. 2016. Contradictory hydrological impacts of afforestation in the humid tropics evidenced by long-term field monitoring and simulation modelling. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 20:2691-2704.
Humid tropics ; Hydrological factors ; Afforestation ; Natural regeneration ; Plantations ; Monitoring ; Simulation models ; Land use ; Land cover change ; Ecosystem services ; Forest conservation ; Catchment areas ; Rainfall-runoff relationships ; Stream flow ; Cropping systems ; Water conservation ; Soil conservation ; Soil surface properties ; Tectona grandis / Lao People's Democratic Republic / Vietnam / Houay Pano Catchment / Dong Cao Catchment
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047644)
http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/20/2691/2016/hess-20-2691-2016.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047644.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047644.pdf
The humid tropics are exposed to an unprecedented modernisation of agriculture involving rapid and mixed land-use changes with contrasted environmental impacts. Afforestation is often mentioned as an unambiguous solution for restoring ecosystem services and enhancing biodiversity. One consequence of afforestation is the alteration of streamflow variability which controls habitats, water resources, and flood risks. We demonstrate that afforestation by tree planting or by natural forest regeneration can induce opposite hydrological changes. An observatory including long-term field measurements of fine-scale land-use mosaics and of hydrometeorological variables has been operating in several headwater catchments in tropical southeast Asia since 2000. The GR2M water balance model, repeatedly calibrated over successive 1-year periods and used in simulation mode with the same year of rainfall input, allowed the hydrological effect of land-use change to be isolated from that of rainfall variability in two of these catchments in Laos and Vietnam. Visual inspection of hydrographs, correlation analyses, and trend detection tests allowed causality between land-use changes and changes in seasonal streamflow to be ascertained. In Laos, the combination of shifting cultivation system (alternation of rice and fallow) and the gradual increase of teak tree plantations replacing fallow led to intricate streamflow patterns: pluri-annual streamflow cycles induced by the shifting system, on top of a gradual streamflow increase over years caused by the spread of the plantations. In Vietnam, the abandonment of continuously cropped areas combined with patches of mix-trees plantations led to the natural re-growth of forest communities followed by a gradual drop in streamflow. Soil infiltrability controlled by surface crusting is the predominant process explaining why two modes of afforestation (natural regeneration vs. planting) led to opposite changes in streamflow regime. Given that commercial tree plantations will continue to expand in the humid tropics, careful consideration is needed before attributing to them positive effects on water and soil conservation.
8 Tran, T. T. H.; Zeller, M.; Suhardiman, Diana. 2016. Payments for ecosystem services in Hoa Binh province, Vietnam: an institutional analysis. Ecosystem Services, 22:83-93.
Payment for Ecosystem Services ; Ecosystem services ; Institutions ; Corporate culture ; Performance evaluation ; Environmental services ; Central government ; Stakeholders ; Forest conservation ; Forest protection ; Households ; Farmers ; Economic aspects / Vietnam / Hoa Binh Province
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047763)
This study examines the institutional design and actual performance, of payments for ecosystem services (PES) in Vietnam. Taking Payments for Forest Environmental Services Program (PFES Program) implementation in Da Bac district, Hoa Binh province as a case study, it brings to light how PES program design and implementation contributed to the central government's objectives to: (1) involve stakeholders in forest management; (2) reduce the government's budget burden for forest protection; and (3) maintain political control over forest resources. In Vietnam, the PFES Program is implemented in a top-down manner. Participating households act as government-induced forest guards rather than forest owners. Incomplete design at the central-level results in poorer performance at lower levels and, the lack of strategic management makes it difficult to know whether the program has actually improved ecosystem services and forest management. While the PFES Program complements other institutions at the national- and local-levels, some institutional incompatibilities exist in terms of customary practices. It is unlikely, however, that these will develop into an institutional conflict.
9 Nair, P. K. R.; Garrity, D. (Eds.) 2012. Agroforestry - the future of global land use. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. 549p. (Advances in Agroforestry 9) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4676-3]
Agroforestry systems ; Land use ; Land management ; Landscape ; Climate change ; Adaptation ; Habitats ; Ecosystem services ; Biodiversity conservation ; Rural development ; Trees ; Domestication ; Carbon sequestration ; Carbon credits ; Agriculture ; Farming systems ; Research and Development ; Energy conservation ; Energy generation ; Renewable energy ; Bioenergy ; Industrialization ; Soil properties ; Rangelands ; Gender ; Smallholders ; Food security ; Germplasm ; Rehabilitation ; Greenhouse gases ; Emission ; Sustainability ; Organic agriculture ; Organic fertilizers ; Faidherbia albida ; Natural resources management ; Forest conservation ; Tillage ; Residues ; Nutrient cycling ; Grazing ; Cropping systems ; Shifting cultivation ; Rubber plants ; Wetlands ; Living standards ; Cashews ; Smallholders ; Fruit growing ; Poverty ; Rural communities ; Environmental policy ; Environmental services ; Silvopastoral systems ; Economic aspects ; Alley cropping ; Reclamation ; Indigenous knowledge ; Urbanization ; Agrobiodiversity ; Fertilizers ; Resource conservation ; Legal aspects ; Corporate culture ; Theobroma cacao ; Coffea ; Forage ; Soil fertility ; Case studies / Asia / Europe / Africa / Indonesia / China / USA / Canada / Japan / Latin America / Kenya / Philippines / Niger / Amazon / Sumatra / Xishuangbanna
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy SF Record No: H047924)
10 Wang, X.; Nuppenau, E.-A. 2021. Modelling payments for ecosystem services for solving future water conflicts at spatial scales: the Okavango River Basin example. Ecological Economics, 184:106982. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.106982]
Payments for ecosystem services ; Modelling ; International waters ; Conflicts ; River basin management ; Integrated management ; Water use ; Forest conservation ; Land use change ; Farmland ; Grasslands ; Shrubs ; Deltas ; Hydrology ; Farmers / Botswana / Angola / Okavango River Basin / Cubango River / Cuito River
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050296)
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This study aims to resolve a potential water conflict between the upper catchment communities of the Okavango River Basin and the downward communities in the Okavango Delta. A model to payment for ecosystem services is developed at the basin level, recognizing spatial diversity and water flows. It addresses four objectives: (1) To assess relationships between water consumption and land use from a spatial perspective. (2) To estimate water availability under current land use as a reference without any water policy intervention. (3) To optimize water flow generation as intended for getting ecosystem services. This is based on the mechanism of payments for ecosystem services, specifically in terms of land use change as stewardship. (4) To compensate farmers for economic losses due to upstream land use changes. Our study suggests that an integrated basin management should consider payments for ecosystem services to incentivize forest conservation. The annual payments of US$28.7 million could encourage farmers upstream to change their land uses from deforestation to forest conservation. With compensation, approximately 8.7 million hectares of Miombo forests would be maintained in the basin, which would secure 3656 million m3 of water during the rainy season and subsequently benefit the Delta in the dry season.
11 Saha, D.; Taron, Avinandan. 2023. Economic valuation of restoring and conserving ecosystem services of Indian Sundarbans. Environmental Development, 46:100846. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envdev.2023.100846]
Ecosystem services ; Forest conservation ; Environmental restoration ; Contingent valuation ; Economic value ; Willingness to pay ; Livelihoods ; Households ; Socioeconomic aspects ; Communities ; Participatory approaches ; Mangroves / India / West Bengal / Sundarbans / Gosaba
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051824)
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Conservation of forest ecosystem is fundamental for economic-ecological sustainability. Indian Sundarbans provide several ecosystem services, which needs sustainable exploitation since forest dwellers are heavily dependent on the forest. In our study, we attempt to estimate the option value of the forest dwellers through a non-market based valuation technique. Using contingent valuation, we seek to estimate the contribution forest fringe dwellers are ready to provide for restoration and conservation of the ecosystem services. Assuming a random utility framework, mean willingness to pay is estimated from the forest dwellers’ responses to the Dichotomous Choice bidding as well as open-ended bidding question using socio-economic variables which determine the value towards forest ecosystem services. The results indicate that forest dwellers have a positive option value and hence are willing to forgo present extraction of forest resources for future use. This value the forest dwellers associate with non-use ecosystem services indicates their willingness to participate in forest conservation. The study therefore concludes that institutions like Joint Forest Management should be promoted for efficient management of the mangrove in providing livelihood and ecosystem services.
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