Tackling Deforestation and Degradation from the Ground up: Community Responses towards Forest Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Forestry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 November 2022) | Viewed by 329
Special Issue Editors
Interests: deforestation; degradation; forest management; geomatics
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: community-based management and governance for conservation; local and traditional ecological knowledge; engaged scholarship for the coproduction of environmental knowledge; environmental conflicts; grassroots innovation
Interests: Amazonia; Latin America; non-timber forest products; ethnobotany; natural resource use and indigenous communities; agriculture and farmers; rural-to-urban migration; globalization and development; railroads and freight transportation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Deterring deforestation and forest degradation is essential in combatting climate change, biodiversity loss and achieving global sustainability goals. At local scales, forest communities and small private landowners are increasingly faced with the need to assess and monitor the impacts of natural and human disturbances to manage and conserve their forests. At national and international levels, they may also engage in programs developed and led by governments, multilateral agencies or NGOs, bringing a top-down approach to store and capture carbon for global climate mitigation.
While so far the bulk of the academic literature has focused on top-down approaches to tackle deforestation and forest degradation, this Special Issue is concerned with the analysis of local responses developed or implemented by forest communities and landowners, thus exemplifying bottom-up approaches. The purpose of the Special Issue is to further the empirical and theoretical knowledge of the role of forest communities and small private landowners’ own initiatives in the global quest for forest sustainability. Such knowledge will be essential in improving and strengthening locally based sustainable forest governance and conservation efforts, while improving the chances of success of the larger, national, regional and global strategies.
For this Special Issue, we encourage original research, reviews and case study articles, authored and co-authored by academics, forest practitioners and community members. We welcome articles covering any forest type around the globe. Topics of interest include local and traditional knowledge and use of mapping, measuring and monitoring technologies (e.g., drones, smartphones and geomatics) by communities and small private landowners to deter deforestation and degradation; community-driven forest restoration efforts; socio-environmental conflicts triggered by processes of forest loss and degradation at community and local scales; local governance in forest monitoring and land management; and community innovations to create new solutions to tackle deforestation or degradation (e.g., new products, alternative production systems, new markets and institutions, new ways of organization and gender relations, and alliances with other communities or civil society groups).
Dr. Edward Alan Ellis
Dr. Jaime Paneque-Gálvez
Dr. James Penn
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- indigenous peoples
- local communities
- small private forest owners
- community-based forest conservation
- community-based forest restoration
- community science
- community innovation
- community forest governance
- deforestation
- forest degradation
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