scholarly journals The Green Value of Your Woods: A Summary of Ecosystem Services Provided by Forest Stewardship Lands in Florida

EDIS ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rose Godfrey ◽  
Chris Demers ◽  
Francisco Escobedo ◽  
Damian Adams ◽  
Michael Andreu
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Wildlife Conservation ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Stewardship Program ◽  
Resource Protection ◽  
Forest Stewardship ◽  
And Storage ◽  
Management And Conservation

Lands enrolled in voluntary forest management and conservation programs, like the Forest Stewardship Program, promote good land management practices. In addition to benefiting the landowners enrolled in these programs, good land management provides ecosystem services to society. The Stewardship Ecosystem Services Survey calculated the physical and economic benefits of water resource protection, carbon sequestration and storage, timber production, and wildlife conservation. This 2-page fact sheet was written by Rose Godfrey, Chris Demers, Francisco Escobedo, Damian Adams, and Michael Andreu, and published by the UF Department of School of Forest Resources and Conservation, September 2013. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fr381

‘Payments for Ecosystem Services’ and Property: The Expansion of Exclusionary Land Management Practices in Costa Rica

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-54
Author(s):  
Brett Sylvester Matulis
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Payments For Ecosystem Services ◽  
Private Ownership ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ownership Rights

The practice of making “payments for ecosystem services” (PES) is about the formation of new social relations between land managers and the human beneficiaries of functioning ecological systems. More specifically, it is about establishing economic relations that (theoretically) transfer financial resources from “users” of services to “producers” who institute prescribed land management practices. Interpreted as a form of “neoliberal conservation”, this approach to environmental governance can be seen as a driving force in the commodification, marketization, and financialization of nature. Hinging on “clearly defined and enforced” property rights, it can also be seen as a factor in the expansion of individualized private ownership. Troubled by this renewed prospect of privatization, critical scholars have done well to challenge the new enclosures of land and resources. But what about when PES operates in areas where private ownership rights are robust and widespread? Are we to believe that the tendency towards privatization poses no threat because those areas are already “lost” to private ownership? This paper considers how the social relationships that constitute property are shifting under the prescribed management practices of PES. I present evidence from Costa Rica's national PES program to suggest that, even on lands that are ostensibly already privately owned, these new practices are resulting in an expansion of exclusionary management. The objective is to demonstrate some of the reasons why financialized approaches to conservation are a problem in “already neoliberal” economies and to offer some conceptual tools for challenging the uncritical assumption that PES is harmless in areas where private ownership is already well established.

scholarly journals Technical Note: Evaluating the Forest Stewardship Coached Planning Course in Washington State

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 236-238
Author(s):  
David Baumgartner ◽  
Patricia Cohn ◽  
Amy Grotta ◽  
Andy Perleberg ◽  
Donald Hanley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Technical Note ◽  
Washington State ◽  
Management Options ◽  
Plan Implementation ◽  
Family Forest ◽  
Washington State University ◽  
Stewardship Program ◽  
Forest Stewardship

Abstract From 1992 to 2005, over 1,100 family forest owners in Washington State participated in a Forest Stewardship Coached Planning (FSCP) course conducted by Washington State University Extension and the Washington State Department of Natural Resources. The course provides forest stewardship education and assists private forest landowners in writing their own forest stewardship management plans with guidance and “coaching” by natural resource professionals. A survey of past course participants conducted in 2006 had a 60% response rate. As a result of the course, 96% of the respondents believed they had a better understanding about management options, and 73% had implemented a practice they would not have done otherwise. Management planning is prevalent among the respondents, with nearly 70% having some type of management plan. Implementation of new management practices through the FSCP approach in Washington exceeds the rates reported in the national Forest Stewardship Program national survey.

scholarly journals Modeling the Production of Multiple Ecosystem Services from Agricultural and Forest Landscapes in Rhode Island

2013 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 251-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tingting Liu ◽  
Nathaniel H. Merrill ◽  
Arthur J. Gold ◽  
Dorothy Q. Kellogg ◽  
Emi Uchida
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Rhode Island ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Watershed Scale ◽  
River Watershed ◽  
Change Climate

This study spatially quantifies hydrological ecosystem services and the production of ecosystem services at the watershed scale. We also investigate the effects of stressors such as land use change, climate change, and choices in land management practices on production of ecosystem services and their values. We demonstrate the approach in the Beaver River watershed in Rhode Island. Our key finding is that choices in land use and land management practices create tradeoffs across multiple ecosystem services and the extent of these tradeoffs depends considerably on the scenarios and ecosystem services being compared.

Implications of land management practices on selected ecosystem services in the agricultural landscapes of Ethiopia: a review

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Abera Assefa Biratu ◽  
Bobe Bedadi ◽  
Solomon Gebreyohannis Gebrehiwot ◽  
Tilahun Hordofa ◽  
Desale Kidane Asmamaw ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Agricultural Landscapes

scholarly journals Estimating societal benefits from Nordic catchments: An integrative approach using a final ecosystem services framework

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. e0252352
Author(s):  
Bart Immerzeel ◽  
Jan E. Vermaat ◽  
Gunnhild Riise ◽  
Artti Juutinen ◽  
Martyn Futter
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Population Density ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Explanatory Variables ◽  
Integrative Framework ◽  
International Comparative

Nordic catchments provide a variety of ecosystem services, from harvestable goods to mitigation of climate change and recreational possibilities. Flows of supplied ecosystem services depend on a broad range of factors, including climate, hydrology, land management and human population density. The aims of this study were: 1) to quantify the total economic value (TEV) of consumed ecosystem services across Nordic catchments, 2) to explain variation in ecosystem service value using socio-geographic and natural factors as explanatory variables in multiple linear regression, and 3) to determine which societal groups benefit from these ecosystem services. Furthermore, we tested the scientific rigour of our framework based on the concept of final ecosystem services (FES). We used a spatially explicit, integrative framework for ecosystem services quantification to compile data on final ecosystem services provision from six catchments across Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Our estimates showed a broad variation in TEV and in the proportion contributed by separate services, with the highest TEV of €7,199 ± 4,561 ha-1 y-1 (mean ± standard deviation) in the Norwegian Orrevassdraget catchment, and the lowest TEV of €183 ± 517 ha-1 y-1 in the Finnish Simojoki catchment. The value of material services was dependent on both geographic factors and land management practices, while the value of immaterial services was strongly dependent on population density and the availability of water. Using spatial data on land use, forest productivity and population density in a GIS analysis showed where hotspots of ecosystem services supply are located, and where specific stakeholder groups benefit most. We show that our framework is applicable to a broad variety of data sources and across countries, making international comparative analyses possible.

scholarly journals Timber Harvesting Characteristics on Forest Stewardship Properties and Non–Forest Stewardship Properties in Central West Virginia

2007 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 265-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew A. Provencher ◽  
David W. McGill ◽  
Shawn T. Grushecky
Keyword(s):  
West Virginia ◽  
Best Management Practices ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Timber Harvesting ◽  
Road Density ◽  
Stewardship Program ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
Road Systems ◽  
Forest Stewardship ◽  
The Impact

Abstract A study was conducted in the Elk River watershed in central West Virginia to evaluate the impact of the US Forest Stewardship Program (FSP) on the physical attributes of primary road systems used in timber harvesting operations. On seven properties enrolled in the FSP and on eight non-FSP properties, road systems used for logging within a 5-year period before this study were mapped and measured. Twenty dependent variables relating to residual vegetation, forest road characteristics, erosion, and certain best management practices (BMP) were used to characterize timber harvesting operations that had been conducted on these properties. With the exception of road density and waterbar implementation, analysis of these dependent variables failed to detect any statistical differences among property types. BMPs observed in this study included waterbars, broad-based dips, turnouts, culverts, and inside ditches. Results suggest that landowner objectives may play a role in the use of alternatives to waterbars. Eighty-one percent of BMP practices other than waterbars were observed on stewardship properties. Higher road densities on non-FSP properties were likely caused by road patterns used on forest industry properties.

scholarly journals Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Forest Stewardship Program in West Virginia: Ten-Year Assessment

2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 236-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian M. Jennings ◽  
David W. McGill
Keyword(s):  
West Virginia ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Plan Implementation ◽  
Assistance Programs ◽  
Private Landowner ◽  
Logistic Regression Models ◽  
Forestry Practices ◽  
Stewardship Program ◽  
Forest Stewardship ◽  
Forest Stewardship Program

Abstract Sixty-three percent of the 2,656 West Virginia Forest Stewardship Program (FSP) participants sampled in this study responded to a survey aimed at assessing the implementation rates of the forest management practices recommended in their forest stewardship plans. Logistic regression models were used to determine factors related to the implementation of 10 different forestry practices. Thirty-nine factors were evaluated for these 10 different binary (implemented, not implemented) response variables including landowner demographics, participation in other private landowner assistance programs, motivation behind enrollment in the FSP, and whether a specific practice was recommended in a plan. Implementation of these 10 practices statistically was associated to 23 of the 39 factors. Participation in other private landowner assistance programs and practice recommendation were two commonly occurring factors related to implementation of forestry practices.North. J. Appl. For. 22(4):236–242.

scholarly journals Modeling Soil Nitrogen Content in South Patagonia across a Climate Gradient, Vegetation Type, and Grazing

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 2707 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo L. Peri ◽  
Yamina M. Rosas ◽  
Brenton Ladd ◽  
Santiago Toledo ◽  
Romina G. Lasagno ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Multiple Regression ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
System Capacity ◽  
Sustainable Land Management ◽  
Total N ◽  
Soil C ◽  
Accessible Information ◽  
Southern Patagonia

Soil total nitrogen (N) stock in rangelands, shrublands, and forests support key ecological functions such as the capacity of the land to sustain plant and animal productivity and ecosystem services. The objective of this study was to model soil total N stocks and soil C/N ratio from 0–30 cm depth across the region using freely accessible information on topography, climate, and vegetation with a view to establishing a baseline against which sustainable land management practices can be evaluated in Southern Patagonia. We used stepwise multiple regression to determine which independent variables best explained soil total N variation across the landscape in Southern Patagonia. We then used multiple regression models to upscale and produce maps of soil total N and C/N across the Santa Cruz province. Soil total N stock to 30 cm ranged from 0.13 to 2.21 kg N m−2, and soil C/N ratios ranged from 4.5 to 26.8. The model for variation of soil total N stock explained 88% of the variance on the data and the most powerful predictor variables were: isothermality, elevation, and vegetation cover (normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI)). Soil total N and soil C/N ratios were allocated to three categories (low, medium, high) and these three levels were used to map the variation of soil total N and soil C/N ratios across Southern Patagonia. The results demonstrate that soil total N decreases as desertification increases, probably due to erosional processes, and that soil C/N is lower at low temperatures and increased with increasing precipitation. Soil total N and soil C/N ratios are critical variables that determine system capacity for productivity, especially the provisioning ecosystem services, and can serve as baselines against which efforts to adopt more sustainable land management practices in Patagonia can be assessed.

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