Social Forestry: The Balance between Welfare and Ecological Justice

Poverty and climate change mitigation are connected to each other, so one of the policies adopted by the Indonesian government is managing forests with social forestry schemes. Where social forestry aims at prospering the poor and preserve forests. A balance between the two is needed because it is not only part of forest land, but it also considers justice for the community to get prosperous rights and realize ecological justice. The dynamics of social forestry in Indonesia are characterized by policies and regulations, but in various regions, people have succeeded in increasing their welfare while making forests sustainable. It was concluded that social forestry builds ecological strategic values that guarantee the sustainability of forest functions managed by the community. It can succeed if policies and regulations in Indonesia provide legal certainty over the rights to community-managed forest land.

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Evaluating the Role of Community-Managed Forest in Carbon Sequestration and Climate Change Mitigation of Tripura, India

Water Air & Soil Pollution ◽

10.1007/s11270-021-05133-z ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 232 (5) ◽

Author(s):

Dipankar Deb ◽

Mary Jamatia ◽

Jaba Debbarma ◽

Jitendra Ahirwal ◽

Sourabh Deb ◽

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Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Carbon Sequestration ◽

Climate Change Mitigation ◽

Managed Forest ◽

Change Mitigation

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Agricultural and Forest Land Use Potential for REDD+ among Smallholder Land Users in Rural Ghana

International Journal of Forestry Research ◽

10.1155/2016/7218305 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 2016 ◽

pp. 1-7 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Divine O. Appiah ◽

John T. Bugri ◽

Eric K. Forkuo ◽

Sampson Yamba

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Climate Change ◽

Climate Change Mitigation ◽

Qualitative Data ◽

Smallholder Farmers ◽

Forest Degradation ◽

Benefit Sharing ◽

Forest Land ◽

Forestry Services ◽

Change Mitigation

Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation with other benefits (REDD+) mechanism is supposed to address the reversal of forest-based land degradation, conservation of existing carbon stocks, and enhancement of carbon sequestration. The Bosomtwe District is predominantly agrarian with potentials for climate change mitigation through REDD+ mechanism among smallholder farmers. The limited knowledge and practices of this strategy among farmers are limiting potentials of mitigating climate change. This paper assesses the REDD+ potentials among smallholder farmers in the district. Using a triangulation of quantitative and qualitative design, 152 farmer-respondents were purposively sampled and interviewed, using snowballing method from 12 communities. Quantitative data gathered were subjected to the tools of contingency and frequencies analysis, embedded in the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) v.16. The qualitative data were analyzed thematically. Results indicate that respondents have knowledge of REDD+ but not the intended benefit sharing regimes that can accrue to the smallholder farmers. Farmers’ willingness to practice REDD+ will be based on the motivation and incentive potentials of the strategies. The Forestry Services Division should promote the practice of REDD+ among smallholder farmers through education, to whip and sustain interest in the strategy.

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Opportunities and Challenges of Mitigation and Adaptation of Climate Change in Indonesia

10.5772/intechopen.97027 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Gun Mardiatmoko

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Oil Palm ◽

Climate Change Mitigation ◽

Agricultural Land ◽

Co2 Flux ◽

Forest Degradation ◽

Forest Conversion ◽

Forest Land ◽

Mitigation And Adaptation ◽

Change Mitigation

The impacts of climate change are changes in rainfall patterns, sea level rise and extreme weather or extreme meteorological events. This impact will further provide dangers that threaten the sustainability of human life. The main causes of climate change are deforestation and forest degradation and the growth rate of industry and transportation modes that are not environmentally friendly. Therefore, Indonesia is participating in the Paris Agreement and implementing the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation program, role of conservation, sustainable management of forest and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries (REDD+). In an effort to increase the prosperity of the State, many forests have been transferred to other uses such as the development of oil palm plantations, agricultural land and urban expansion etc. In fact, many agricultural lands have changed their function into settlements. If this happens, the forest area will continue to decrease again because after the agricultural land has turned into residential land, the forest land is converted again for agricultural expansion, this happens continuously. When viewed from the CO2 flux, there will also be changes in the basic CO2 flux from forest land, plantation land, agriculture and urban areas. The problem of deforestation and forest degradation is inseparable from the large number of forest conversion functions into oil palm plantations, expansion of agricultural areas and other uses such as urban development and infrastructure. Opportunities for climate change mitigation and adaptation include the implementation of the REDD+ program, financing of climate change mitigation and availability of climate information. The challenges faced include the lack of synergy in the policy framework and implementation of climate change control, recognition of indigenous peoples’ rights and uncertainty in the implementation of the REDD+ program.

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