Applying the Ecosystem Approach to Select Priority Areas for Forest Landscape Restoration in the Yungas, Northwestern Argentina |
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Authors: | Elena Ianni Davide Geneletti |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Trento, via Mesiano, 77, 38100 Trento, Italy |
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Abstract: | This paper proposes a method to select forest restoration priority areas consistently with the key principles of the Ecosystem
Approach (EA) and the Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) framework. The methodology is based on the principles shared by the
two approaches: acting at ecosystem scale, involving stakeholders, and evaluating alternatives. It proposes the involvement
of social actors which have a stake in forest management through multicriteria analysis sessions aimed at identifying the
most suitable forest restoration intervention. The method was applied to a study area in the native forests of Northern Argentina
(the Yungas). Stakeholders were asked to identify alternative restoration actions, i.e. potential areas implementing FLR.
Ten alternative fincas—estates derived from the Spanish land tenure system—differing in relation to ownership, management,
land use, land tenure, and size were evaluated. Twenty criteria were selected and classified into four groups: biophysical,
social, economic and political. Finca Ledesma was the closest to the economic, social, environmental and political goals,
according to the values and views of the actors involved in the decision. This study represented the first attempt to apply
EA principles to forest restoration at landscape scale in the Yungas region. The benefits obtained by the application of the
method were twofold: on one hand, researchers and local actors were forced to conceive the Yungas as a complex net of rights
rather than as a sum of personal interests. On the other hand, the participatory multicriteria approach provided a structured
process for collective decision-making in an area where it has never been implemented. |
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