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Strategic Insights for Capacity Development on Forest Landscape Restoration: Implications for Addressing Global Commitments

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Author(s):
Bloomfield, Gillian [1] ; Meli, Paula [2, 3, 4] ; Brancalion, Pedro H. S. [2] ; Terris, Eli [1] ; Guariguata, Manuel R. [5] ; Garen, Eva [1]
Total Authors: 6
Affiliation:
[1] Yale Sch Forestry & Environm Studies, Environm Leadership & Training Initiat, New Haven, CT 06511 - USA
[2] Univ Sao Paulo, Luiz de Queiroz Coll Agr, Dept Forest Sci, Sao Paulo, SP - Brazil
[3] Fdn Int Restaurac Ecosistemas, Madrid - Spain
[4] Univ La Frontera, Dept Ciencias Forestales, Lab Ecol Paisaje & Conservac, Temuco - Chile
[5] Ctr Int Forestry Res, Lima - Peru
Total Affiliations: 5
Document type: Journal article
Source: TROPICAL CONSERVATION SCIENCE; v. 12, NOV 2019.
Web of Science Citations: 0
Abstract

Global initiatives such as the Aichi Targets and Bonn Challenge have inspired governments to pledge to restore millions of hectares of degraded lands. Many of these calls to action and policy frameworks identify capacity development as important for implementing and scaling-up restoration activities to meet global targets. However, there is little explanation about what capacity development actually involves. How is capacity development approached in the context of restoration? What makes it more or less effective? This article aims to help fill that gap by identifying four components of what an effective approach to capacity development might look like, drawing upon a number of examples in practice. We believe that capacity development initiatives can more effectively support stakeholders to address the complex nature of forest landscape restoration (FLR) if they include the following four components: (a) activities tailored to stakeholder needs and context, (b) knowledge and applied experience from diverse sources and disciplines, (c) skill sets for selecting among a suite of restoration interventions, and (d) inclusion of multiple subjects and skill sets (e.g., social, financial, legal, etc.) in addition to technical or ecological themes. As exemplified by the organizations discussed in this article, these four elements of capacity development can help to support restoration professionals and other stakeholders to think holistically, moving from the scale of an individual farm or plot to the landscape scale where they must address more diverse stakeholder interests, societal trade-offs, and socioecological heterogeneity. This more holistic approach to FLR planning and implementation is needed to more effectively accomplish ambitious FLR targets worldwide. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 16/00052-9 - Understanding ecological, legal and social aspects of the forest-water relation with importance for ecosystem services
Grantee:Paula Meli
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral