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Forest biodiversity monitoring: Guide to community-based approaches

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Title Forest biodiversity monitoring: Guide to community-based approaches
 
Creator Welter, Z.
Jalonen, R.
 
Subject forestry biodiversity
guidelines
climate change
harvesting
community management
 
Description Monitoring of natural resources and their management is a key element for effective decision-making in constantly changing and uncertain situations. Monitoring can reduce risks, increase transparency and accountability, enhance learning, and improve the successful implementation of activities. It helps ensure that changes to management approaches come from learning and reflection instead of hasty reactions or unilateral decisions.

Involving local communities in monitoring initiatives makes the process more participatory and contextually relevant, less dependent on external inputs, simpler and usually less expensive. Participatory monitoring initiatives, particularly the ones that are community driven, can increase the sense of ownership towards the management of natural resources and favour the development of adaptive management strategies by facilitating discussion, participation and learning within local communities.

This guide is designed to help facilitators develop community-based monitoring initiatives for forest biodiversity by providing a series of steps, recommendations and examples to guide the process. While the guide applies to forest biodiversity, similar approaches can be used to monitor other aspects of natural-resource management. The guide includes tips on using participatory tools for the collection of biodiversity data and insights on how to encourage the participation of local actors across social groups in decision-making processes that affect forest biodiversity resources in their communities and surrounding landscapes.
 
Date 2019
2019-02-22T11:32:47Z
2019-02-22T11:32:47Z
 
Type Book
 
Identifier Welter, Z.; Jalonen, R. (2019). Forest biodiversity monitoring: Guide to community-based approaches. Rome (Italy): Bioversity International 80 p. ISBN: 978-92-9255-121-6
978-92-9255-121-6
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/99532
 
Language en
 
Rights Copyrighted; all rights reserved
Open Access
 
Format 80 p.
application/pdf
 
Publisher Bioversity International