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Restoration concessions: a second lease on life for beleaguered tropical forests?

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Title Restoration concessions: a second lease on life for beleaguered tropical forests?
 
Creator Harrison, R.D.
Swinfield, T.
Ayat, A.
Dewi, S.
Silalahi, M.
Heriansyah, I.
 
Subject ecological restoration
tropical forests
land use
 
Description Logging has depleted timber resources across a considerable portion of the world's tropical forests, leaving them vulnerable to conversion to other land‐use types. This raises the question of whether management for restoration represents an economically viable alternative. We reviewed restoration concessions (areas of degraded state forest land leased to enterprises on long‐term [≥60‐year] licenses for restoration‐compatible business development) in Indonesia since their introduction in 2004 and found that, although many opportunities and actions are being explored, business models remain largely aspirational. Costs – including those associated with taxes and reporting, forest protection, community development, and restoration interventions – are high, while developing revenues at sufficient scale from carbon markets, non‐timber forest products, and ecosystem services is challenging. Potential solutions include the development of restoration‐compatible revenue streams and value‐added processing to generate income, investment in communities to bring them in as partners in restoration enterprises, and creation of a supportive regulatory environment by reducing statutory costs and eliminating perverse regulations. Restoration concessions are a scalable policy option for promoting private investment in restoration that could be replicated internationally to help meet ambitious global restoration targets.
 
Date 2020-12-01
2021-04-14T01:46:55Z
2021-04-14T01:46:55Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Harrison, R.D., Swinfield, T., Ayat, A., Dewi, S., Silalahi, M. and Heriansyah, I., 2020. Restoration concessions: a second lease on life for beleaguered tropical forests?. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 18(10), pp.567-575. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2265
1540-9309
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/113321
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fee.2265
https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2265
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 567-575
 
Source Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment