Stakeholder Perceptions On The Role Of Forest Ecosystem Services In Sustainable Development

Download or read book Stakeholder Perceptions on the Role of Forest Ecosystem Services in Sustainable Development written by Titaningtyas and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forests are one of the key ecosystems that provide services relied upon by humans for their livelihoods. Sustainable forest management (SFM) provides essential support for achieving sustainable development. However, the endeavours are complicated as it affects and is affected by various factors, stakeholder perceptions amongst others. This thesis argues that understanding stakeholder perceptions of forest ecosystem services can be beneficial in decision making processes to support wider goals of sustainable development. Therefore, obtaining and categorising the stakeholder perceptions of the forest ecosystem services in sustainable development is important for enhancing SFM framework. This thesis began with identifying discourses related to forest ecosystem services in the context of sustainable development and stakeholder participation. Based on these discourses and information, this thesis used Q methodology to understand the stakeholder perceptions on the role of forest ecosystem services in sustainable development. The results elucidated three distinct perspectives and common ground as shown by the consensus perspective. The perspectives align with the worldviews of environmental changes, such as market liberals, institutionalists, bioenvironmentalists, and social greens. These perspectives were further categorised according to value orientations, such as the biocentricanthropocentric continuum, to demonstrate possible future policy implications in sustainable forest management. The consensus perspective revealed that PES was not the source of inequalities but rather exacerbated them, and there is a dire need for good forest governance and education from the primary level to broaden the understanding of the general public with regard to forest ecosystem services. Further discussion on the findings revealed the factors that enhance or inhibit the implementation of current sustainable forest management schemes, such as PES, REDD+, and certification. Generally, formal legislative frameworks are seen as an enhancing factor while conflicting stakeholder interests and misconception of the schemes or the scale of the scheme are seen as inhibiting factor. The policy implications from this thesis were presented in clusters of perceptions, which showed the value orientation of the perception as well as the preference of forest management solution.