Essays about: "sustainable forest management in zanzibar"

Found 2 essays containing the words sustainable forest management in zanzibar.

1. 1. Whom it May Concern : A Case Study of Local Participation in Community-Based Nature Resource Management of the Mangrove Forest on Zanzibar

   University essay from Institutionen för livsvetenskaper

   Author : Linn Rabe; [2008]
   Keywords : Community-Based Nature Resource Management; Participation; decision-making; Zanzibar; Mangrove forest;

   Abstract :   Local participation, especially in managing systems of socio- natural resources, has been promoted as the answer to the puzzle about sustainable development. Community-Based Nature Resource Management (CBNRM) is an approach that has generally praised as the way to support genuine participation of ‘local people’ and empower them through the process. READ MORE

3. 2. 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