Opportunities for Avoided Deforestation with Sustainable Benefits. An Interim Report by the ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins

@book{citeulike:2929494, abstract = {The ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins has conducted biophysical, socioeconomic and institutional research on the tradeoffs associated with alternative land uses in the humid tropics. Building on previous research at the ASB benchmark sites, this paper presents spatially-explicit analyses of the tradeoffs between carbon and economic returns in three sites in Indonesia, and one site in each of Peru and Cameroon. Located in the humid forest zones of Southeast Asia, the Amazon basin, and Central Africa, these sites represent a range of the conditions that shape tree and forest management across the humid tropics. Indonesia is particularly distinguished by having the world’s highest levels of land-based emissions of greenhouse gases and largest CO2 emissions from conversion of peat lands. Results presented in this report indicate similarities and differences across the sites. The patterns of land use transition over the last 10-20 years vary considerably, with some sites experiencing general trends of carbon-emitting land use changes, while others experiencing a balance of carbon-emitting and carbonsequestering land use changes. In general, however, the carbon losses due to carbon-emitting forest conversion vastly exceed the carbon gains due to carbon-sequestering land use changes. This is exemplified by the Indonesian province of East Kalimantan. Although it has experienced more sequestering land use changes than emitting land use changes, the province has on net lost huge amounts of carbon overall since 1990. . This is because the carbon-emitting land use changes have resulted in average losses of 230 tonnes per hectare per in the year that they occur, while shifts from lower to higher carbon-sequestering land uses have resulted in just 4 tonnes of sequestration per hectare per year.}, address = {Nairobi, Kenya}, author = {Swallow, B. and van Noordwijk, M. and Dewi, S. and Murdiyarso, D. and White, D. and Gockowski, J. and Hyman, G. and Budidarsono, S. and Robiglio, V. and Meadu, V. and Ekadinata, A. and Agus, F. and Hairiah, K. and Mbile, P. N. and Sonwa, D. J. and Weise, S. }, citeulike-article-id = {2929494}, keywords = {cameroon, indonesia, opportunity\_cost, peat, peru, redd}, posted-at = {2008-06-26 10:59:15}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins}, title = {Opportunities for Avoided Deforestation with Sustainable Benefits. An Interim Report by the ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins}, url = {http://www.asb.cgiar.org/PDFwebdocs/Report-on-Opportunities-for-Avoided-Deforestation-Sustainable-Benefits-web-low.pdf}, year = {2007} }

TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:2929494 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2929494 TI - Opportunities for Avoided Deforestation with Sustainable Benefits. An Interim Report by the ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins AD - Nairobi, Kenya PB - ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins N2 - The ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins has conducted biophysical, socioeconomic and institutional research on the tradeoffs associated with alternative land uses in the humid tropics. Building on previous research at the ASB benchmark sites, this paper presents spatially-explicit analyses of the tradeoffs between carbon and economic returns in three sites in Indonesia, and one site in each of Peru and Cameroon. Located in the humid forest zones of Southeast Asia, the Amazon basin, and Central Africa, these sites represent a range of the conditions that shape tree and forest management across the humid tropics. Indonesia is particularly distinguished by having the world’s highest levels of land-based emissions of greenhouse gases and largest CO2 emissions from conversion of peat lands. Results presented in this report indicate similarities and differences across the sites. The patterns of land use transition over the last 10-20 years vary considerably, with some sites experiencing general trends of carbon-emitting land use changes, while others experiencing a balance of carbon-emitting and carbonsequestering land use changes. In general, however, the carbon losses due to carbon-emitting forest conversion vastly exceed the carbon gains due to carbon-sequestering land use changes. This is exemplified by the Indonesian province of East Kalimantan. Although it has experienced more sequestering land use changes than emitting land use changes, the province has on net lost huge amounts of carbon overall since 1990. . This is because the carbon-emitting land use changes have resulted in average losses of 230 tonnes per hectare per in the year that they occur, while shifts from lower to higher carbon-sequestering land uses have resulted in just 4 tonnes of sequestration per hectare per year. KW - cameroon KW - indonesia KW - opportunity_cost KW - peat KW - peru KW - redd AU - Swallow, B AU - van Noordwijk, M AU - Dewi, S AU - Murdiyarso, D AU - White, D AU - Gockowski, J AU - Hyman, G AU - Budidarsono, S AU - Robiglio, V AU - Meadu, V AU - Ekadinata, A AU - Agus, F AU - Hairiah, K AU - Mbile, PN AU - Sonwa, DJ AU - Weise, S PY - 2007/// UR - http://www.asb.cgiar.org/PDFwebdocs/Report-on-Opportunities-for-Avoided-Deforestation-Sustainable-Benefits-web-low.pdf ER -