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Participatory monitoring to connect local and global priorities for forest restoration

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Title Participatory monitoring to connect local and global priorities for forest restoration
 
Creator Evans, K.
Guariguata, M.R.
Brancalion, Pedro H.S.
 
Subject forest rehabilitation
ecological restoration
 
Description New global initiatives to restore forest landscapes present an unparalleled opportunity to reverse deforestation and forest degradation. Participatory monitoring could play a crucial role in providing accountability, generating local buy in, and catalyzing learning in monitoring systems that need scalability and adaptability to a range of local sites. We synthesized current knowledge from literature searches and interviews to provide lessons for the development of a scalable, multisite participatory monitoring system. Studies show that local people can collect accurate data on forest change, drivers of change, threats to reforestation, and biophysical and socioeconomic impacts that remote sensing cannot. They can do this at one‐third the cost of professionals. Successful participatory monitoring systems collect information on a few simple indicators, respond to local priorities, provide appropriate incentives for participation, and catalyze learning and decision making based on frequent analyses and multilevel interactions with other stakeholders. Participatory monitoring could provide a framework for linking global, national, and local needs, aspirations, and capacities for forest restoration.
 
Date 2018-06
2021-03-08T08:17:04Z
2021-03-08T08:17:04Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Evans, K., Guariguata, M.R., Brancalion, P.H.S. 2018. Participatory monitoring to connect local and global priorities for forest restoration. Conservation Biology, 32 (3): 525-534. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13110
0888-8892
1523-1739
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/112052
https://www.cifor.org/library/6838
https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13110
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Publisher Wiley