Essays about: "Iddi Hussein Hassan"

Found 1 essay containing the words Iddi Hussein Hassan.

1. 1. Reliability of Payment for water Resources as an Environmental Service towards the sustainable management of watershed forests in Zanzibar, Tanzania : A Case study of Kiwengwa - Pongwe Forest Reserve

   University essay from Tema vatten i natur och samhälle

   Author : Iddi Hussein Hassan; [2007]
   Keywords : Zanzibar; Kiwengwa-Pongwe Forest Reserve; Payment for Watershed Environmental Services; Sustainable Management; CVM; WTA and WTP;

   Abstract : Currently, there is a great rampage among conservationists looking for useful approaches that can be used to bring efficiency towards conservation of global natural ecosystems. But which approach can be really effective to halt destruction of a particular natural ecosystem where the local people depend on the same ecosystem resources for their livelihoods? Do the local communities accept to refrain themselves from using natural ecosystem resources (loss of free access), which they believe is under their local territory since they are born, without having alternatives that will replace and improve economic gain of their livelihoods? Are the consumers who benefited from the ecosystem services always willing to compensate local communities around natural ecosystem as a means of replacing what they lose? This study looks at the reliability of Payment for Water Environmental Services (PWES) approach at Kiwengwa-Pongwe Forest Reserve (KPFR) as a device aimed at promoting the sustainable management of KPFR watershed resources without undermining livelihoods of the Kiwengwa-Pongwe local communities. READ MORE