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Lessons from forest rehabilitation through agroforestry trials in lowland Kutai, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

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Title Lessons from forest rehabilitation through agroforestry trials in lowland Kutai, East Kalimantan, Indonesia
 
Creator Toma, T.
 
Subject forest fires
lowland areas
rehabilitation
grasslands
community forestry
community involvement
agroforestry
conferences
 
Description The eastern part of Kutai Regency (lowland Kutai) in East Kalimantan, Indonesia is susceptible to large-scale wildfires during severe droughts related to strong El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events as shown by the 1982-83 and 1997-98 fires. Since the 1982-83 forest fires, many trials have been conducted to rehabilitate the burned forests. However, the 1998 fires burned those rehabilitated forests in lowland Kutai. It is expected that severe droughts related to strong ENSO events and subsequent wildfires will occur again in the near future. Without effective fire prevention, the rehabilitated areas will be burned again and the rehabilitation process will never have enough time to reach completion. To rehabilitate burned forests and grasslands, it is important that community-based initiatives be undertaken to reduce potential fire sources and to enhance fire management activities. Clear benefits to the local community should be introduced and announced to the local people before and during forest rehabilitation. In this context, agroforestry systems will be keys to rehabilitate the degraded forest lands in such a fire prone region. The possibilities and constraints of forest rehabilitation through agroforestry in lowland Kutai are discussed based on the lessons learnt from the past initiatives conducted in the region.
 
Date 2003
2012-06-04T09:08:44Z
2012-06-04T09:08:44Z
 
Type Book Chapter
 
Identifier Toma, T. 2003. Lessons from forest rehabilitation through agroforestry trials in lowland Kutai, East Kalimantan, Indonesia . In: Bunvong Thaiutsa, Ladawan Puangchit, Don Koo Lee, Sang Won Ahn (eds.). Roles of agroforestry in restoration of degraded forest ecosystem: proceedings of the International Workshop, 6-8 August 2003, Chiangmai, Thailand.. :1-8. Suwon, Korea, ASEAN-Korea Environmental Cooperation Project (AKECOP).
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/18726
https://www.cifor.org/knowledge/publication/1252
 
Language en
 
Publisher ASEAN-Korea Environmental Cooperation Project (AKECOP)