What is needed to implement a forest and landscape restoration intervention? Development of a socioeconomic standard

• Ano de defesa: 2019
• Autor(a) principal: Belei, Loren
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: eng
• Instituição de defesa: Biblioteca Digitais de Teses e Dissertações da USP
• Palavras-chave em Português: Forest and Landscape Restoration; Socioeconomic aspects; Socioeconomic Principles; Standardization Scheme; Restauração de Florestas e Paisagens; Aspectos Socioeconômicos; Princípios Socioeconômicos; Esquema de Padronização
• Link de acesso: https://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/106/106132/tde-30092020-160641/

Interest in ecological restoration and forest restoration projects has grown both in the scientific and practical fields of public policy and civil society. The reason for this is the increase in the number of international agreements (e.g., Paris agreement) and national initiatives that drive public policy and the interest of private enterprise in restoration projects, especially as a means of mitigating carbon emissions. More recently, restoration projects have adopted new approaches to make them more effective and applicable at large scales and including anthropogenic land uses. The Restoration of Forests and Landscapes is such approach, which seeks to encompass not only ecological objectives of forest restoration, but also social and economic aspects, with the aim of promoting the livelihoods of the actors of the landscape involved. It differs from other approaches since it does not only focus on restoration of degraded lands but aims to couple forest restoration with other anthropogenic land uses producing multifunctional landscapes. Despite the growing interest in restoration projects, it is necessary to further develop and implement tools to verify compliance with restoration projects\' objectives and socioeconomic impacts, especially in more complex approaches such as landscapes. This project therefore aimed to identify the necessary principles and propose a standard framework of socioeconomic aspects for forest and landscape restoration projects. The project was done in two steps. The first served to identify the main concepts and principles of Forest and Landscape Restoration. In the second stage, develop a standardization scheme of socioeconomic aspects, which may be suitable for different contexts and which aims to assist in the planning, implementation of project monitoring.