Human well-being effects are often crucial to the success of forest conservation initiatives. For instance, a new protected area may reduce local people’s access to some forest extractive incomes, but might also safeguard other livelihood benefits. On aggregate, well-being effects may be hard to measure reliably. Specific methods developed by CIFOR, IUCN, PROFOR and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), respectively, to assess forests benefits will be examined and explored.
Session partner:
CIFORFocal point:
Sven Wunder, CIFORModerator:
Terry Sunderland
CIFOR
CIFOR
Participants:
Sven Wunder
CIFOR
CIFOR
Presentation:
“Measuring forest reliance in rural incomes across the global tropics”
“Measuring forest reliance in rural incomes across the global tropics”
David Wilkie
WCS
WCS
Presentation:
“Human well-being measures in conservation”
“Human well-being measures in conservation”
Gill Shepherd
IUCN
IUCN
Presentation:
“Measuring the economic benefits of forests”
“Measuring the economic benefits of forests”
Emilie Perge
PROFOR
PROFOR
Presentation:
“Forest-SWIFT: High frequency data collection in forests”
“Forest-SWIFT: High frequency data collection in forests”