More than Just Trees: Assessing Reforestation Success in Tropical Developing Countries

Autor/inn/en	Le, Hai Dinh; Smith, Carl; Herbohn, John; Harrison, Stephen
Titel	More than Just Trees: Assessing Reforestation Success in Tropical Developing Countries
Quelle	In: Journal of Rural Studies, 28 (2012) 1, S.5-19 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0743-0167
DOI	10.1016/j.jrurstud.2011.07.006
Schlagwörter	Rural Areas; Forestry; Foreign Countries; Developing Nations; Conservation (Environment); Depleted Resources; Success; Evaluation; Models + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Forstwissenschaft; Waldwirtschaft; Ausland; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Conservation; Environment; Konservierung; Bewahung; Umwelt; Erfolg; Evaluierung; Analogiemodell
Abstract	Rural communities in many parts of the tropics are dependent of forests for their livelihoods and for environmental services. Forest resources in the tropics have declined rapidly over the past century and therefore many developing countries in the tropics have reforestation programs. Although reforestation is a long-term process with long-term benefits, existing evaluations of the success of these programs tends to focus on short-term establishment success indicators. This paper presents a review of reforestation assessment that highlights the need to not only consider short-term establishment success, but also longer-term growth and maturation success, environmental success and socio-economic success. In addition, we argue that reforestation assessment should not be based on success indicators alone, but should incorporate the drivers of success, which encompasses an array of biophysical, socio-economic, institutional and project characteristics. This is needed in order to understand the reasons why reforestation projects succeed or fail and therefore to design more successful projects in future. The paper presents a conceptual model for reforestation success assessment that links key groups of success indicators and drivers. This conceptual model provides the basis for a more comprehensive evaluation of reforestation success and the basis for the development of predictive systems-based assessment models. These models will be needed to better guide reforestation project planning and policy design and therefore assist rural communities in tropical developing countries to alleviate poverty and achieve a better quality of life. (Contains 1 figure and 9 tables.) (As Provided).
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