Identifying Forest Degradation and Restoration Opportunities in the Lancang-Mekong Region: A Tool to Determine Criteria and Indicators
Forest restoration is increasingly becoming a priority at international and national levels. Identifying forest degradation, however, is challenging because its drivers are underlying and site-specific. Existing frameworks and principles for identifying forest degradation are useful at larger scales...
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| author | Kalifi Ferretti-Gallon James Douglas Langston Guangyu Wang Kebiao Huang Chao Long Hongbo Zhai |
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| description | Forest restoration is increasingly becoming a priority at international and national levels. Identifying forest degradation, however, is challenging because its drivers are underlying and site-specific. Existing frameworks and principles for identifying forest degradation are useful at larger scales, however, a framework that includes iterative input from local knowledge-holders would be useful at smaller scales. Here, we present a new mechanism; a framework for developing criteria and indicators that enables an approach for the identification of forest degradation and opportunities for restoration in landscapes that is free from failures that are often inherent to project cycles. The Degradation and Restoration Assessment Mechanism (DReAM) uses an iterative process that is based on local expertise and established regional knowledge to inform what is forest degradation and how to monitor restoration. We tested the mechanism’s utility at several sites in the Lancang-Mekong Region (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam). The application of this mechanism rendered a suite of appropriate criteria and indicators for use in identifying degraded forests which can help inform detailed guidelines to develop rehabilitation approaches. The mechanism is designed to be utilized by any individual or group that is interested in degradation identification and/or rehabilitation assessment. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-940e3ef354ce403092d9659287a706052023-12-01T01:21:14ZengMDPI AGClimate2225-11542022-03-011045210.3390/cli10040052Identifying Forest Degradation and Restoration Opportunities in the Lancang-Mekong Region: A Tool to Determine Criteria and IndicatorsKalifi Ferretti-Gallon0James Douglas Langston1Guangyu Wang2Kebiao Huang3Chao Long4Hongbo Zhai5Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, CanadaFaculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, CanadaFaculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, CanadaAsia-Pacific Network for Sustainable Forest Management and Rehabilitation, Beijing 100102, ChinaAsia-Pacific Network for Sustainable Forest Management and Rehabilitation, Beijing 100102, ChinaAsia-Pacific Network for Sustainable Forest Management and Rehabilitation, Beijing 100102, ChinaForest restoration is increasingly becoming a priority at international and national levels. Identifying forest degradation, however, is challenging because its drivers are underlying and site-specific. Existing frameworks and principles for identifying forest degradation are useful at larger scales, however, a framework that includes iterative input from local knowledge-holders would be useful at smaller scales. Here, we present a new mechanism; a framework for developing criteria and indicators that enables an approach for the identification of forest degradation and opportunities for restoration in landscapes that is free from failures that are often inherent to project cycles. The Degradation and Restoration Assessment Mechanism (DReAM) uses an iterative process that is based on local expertise and established regional knowledge to inform what is forest degradation and how to monitor restoration. We tested the mechanism’s utility at several sites in the Lancang-Mekong Region (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam). The application of this mechanism rendered a suite of appropriate criteria and indicators for use in identifying degraded forests which can help inform detailed guidelines to develop rehabilitation approaches. The mechanism is designed to be utilized by any individual or group that is interested in degradation identification and/or rehabilitation assessment.https://www.mdpi.com/2225-1154/10/4/52Lancang-Mekong Regionforest degradationrestorationcriteriaindicatorsassessment |
| spellingShingle | Kalifi Ferretti-Gallon James Douglas Langston Guangyu Wang Kebiao Huang Chao Long Hongbo Zhai Identifying Forest Degradation and Restoration Opportunities in the Lancang-Mekong Region: A Tool to Determine Criteria and Indicators Climate Lancang-Mekong Region forest degradation restoration criteria indicators assessment |
| title | Identifying Forest Degradation and Restoration Opportunities in the Lancang-Mekong Region: A Tool to Determine Criteria and Indicators |
| title_full | Identifying Forest Degradation and Restoration Opportunities in the Lancang-Mekong Region: A Tool to Determine Criteria and Indicators |
| title_fullStr | Identifying Forest Degradation and Restoration Opportunities in the Lancang-Mekong Region: A Tool to Determine Criteria and Indicators |
| title_full_unstemmed | Identifying Forest Degradation and Restoration Opportunities in the Lancang-Mekong Region: A Tool to Determine Criteria and Indicators |
| title_short | Identifying Forest Degradation and Restoration Opportunities in the Lancang-Mekong Region: A Tool to Determine Criteria and Indicators |
| title_sort | identifying forest degradation and restoration opportunities in the lancang mekong region a tool to determine criteria and indicators |
| topic | Lancang-Mekong Region forest degradation restoration criteria indicators assessment |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2225-1154/10/4/52 |
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