Cn tu12 9_wb3_aveiro_participatory_slm_appraisal_svalente

CESAMCentreforenvironmentalandmarinestudies
AssociateLaboratory|www.cesam.ua.pt
Methodology for participatory SLM
appraisal and selection
- the Portuguese experience -
Sandra Valente,Sandra Valente, Celeste Coelho, António Ferreira, Jorge Moreira, ManuelaCeleste Coelho, António Ferreira, Jorge Moreira, Manuela
Carreiras, João Soares, Gudrun Schwilch, Felicitas Bachmann & TeresaCarreiras, João Soares, Gudrun Schwilch, Felicitas Bachmann & Teresa
CarvalhoCarvalho
LANDCON 1010
International Conference on Combating Land Degradation and Annual Councilor Meeting of WASWAC
11-15 October 2010, Xi’An, Shaanxi Province, China

LANDCON 1010
Depopulation Forest Fires
Profitability losses Erosion processes
Desertification
Depopulation Forest Fires
Profitability losses Erosion processes
Desertification

LANDCON 1010
Portuguese study sites: Mação and Góis Municipalities
Mação Municipality:
• 6919 inhabitants and 17,7 inhab/km2
(2009)
• Rainfall between 600 and 1000 mm/year
• Soils very shallow and stony
• Step slopes (> 20º)
• Agro-silvo-pasture systems in the middle 20th / at the present
forestry of Pine and Eucalyptus and shrubland
• Huge investments in fire fighting equipment and measures
Góis Municipality
• 4321 inhabitants and 16,6 inhab/km2
(2009)
• Rainfall about 1200 mm, concentrated during winter season
• Soils very shallow and stony
• Slope about 20º
• Land use is pasture on dense shrubland and forestry
• Some experience in applying prescribed fire

DESIRE WB3 Methodology
LANDCON 1010
Aim and Role: To identify, evaluate, document and share existing and potential SLM
strategies and to select and negotiate promising strategies for implementation
Desertification
Problems:
 Overgrazing
 Droughts
 Flash floods
 Water erosion
 Wind erosion
 Salinization
 Forest Fires

Decision Support for selecting SLM practices
LANDCON 1010
Evaluation, documentation
and sharing of the
identified strategies
Participatory Learning Approach
To share experiences
To identify existent and potential strategies
To increase trust and collaboration
Selection and negotiation
of the strategies
To select the best options
Using a decision support tool
Dissemination
Evaluation of the
Implemented strategies
Part I – Identification:
Stakeholder workshop 1
Part II – Assessment:
Standardised questionnaires
Part III – Selection:
Stakeholder workshop 2
WB4
WB6

Researchers
LANDCON 1010
Portuguese study sites: Stakeholders
Common lands
National Authority
to Forest
Forest associations
Forest ownersHunter
associations
Regional Department
for Agriculture and
Fisheries
Parishes
ZIF
Technical
Forest Office
Fire brigade and
civil protection bodies
City Council

LANDCON 1010
Stakeholder Workshop 1 – Participatory Learning Approach
Aim: Identify promising existing and potential strategies for land conservation
WS duration: Two days; 15-16 March 2008
Participants: 17 participants (77% were male and 71% were from local level)
Main aim concerning SLM identified in the WS1: Reduction of burned area
@ UA, 2008
Mação, 2008Mação, 2008
@ CM Mação, 2005

LANDCON 1010
 Picture gallery: Land degradation and land conservation issues
@ UA/ESAC, 2008
WS1 - Mação, 2008
@ UA/ESAC, 2008
WS1 - Mação, 2008

LANDCON 1010
 The water and biomass cycles: Disturbances
@ UA/ESAC, 2008
WS1 - Mação, 2008
@ UA/ESAC, 2008
WS1 - Mação, 2008

LANDCON 1010
 Local indicators for land degradation and conservation
@ UA, 2009
Mação, 2009
@ UA, 2009
Caratão - Mação, 2009

LANDCON 1010
 Stakeholders’ influence and interest in SLM
WS1 - Mação, 2008
@ UA/ESAC, 2008

@ UA, 2008
WS1 - Mação, 2008
LANDCON 1010
 Stakeholders’ influence and interest in SLM
 Already applied and potential solutions to problems of land degradation
@ UA, 2008
Terraces - Mação, 2008
@ UA, 2008
WS1 - Mação, 2008
@ UA, 2008
Alto da Caldeirinha - Mação, 2009

LANDCON 1010
 Outline of a strategy for sustainable land management
Approach: ZIF (Forest Intervention Area)
Technologies: Primary Strip Network System for Fuel
Management and Prescribed Fire

LANDCON 1010
WOCAT Questionnaires
Evaluation, Documentation and Sharing the identifying strategies

LANDCON 1010
Stakeholder Workshop 2 – Selection and decision support
Aim: Select jointly 1-2 options from the WOCAT database to be implemented under
DESIRE framework and to strengthen collaboration among the stakeholders involved
WS duration: Two days; 19-20 February 2009
Participants: 12 participants (67% were male and 83% were from local level)
Main aim concerning SLM identified in the WS1: Reduction of the burned
area
Problem: Few technologies in the WOCAT database to mitigate or prevent burned
area
Need to document several technologies to address this problem

LANDCON 1010
 Selection of options
- Strategic management of fuel strips;
- Prescribed fire;
- Preventive forestry;
- Infrastructures for Forest Support

LANDCON 1010
 Identification of economic, social and ecological criteria to
evaluate the options
Examples: implementation costs; production increase; soil conservation; increase water
availability; increase employment; social acceptance of the technology; etc.

LANDCON 1010
 Identification of economic, social and ecological criteria to evaluate the options
 Scoring the options and ranking using the Facilitator
@ UA/ESAC, 2008
WS2 - Góis, 2009
@ UA/ESAC, 2008
WS2 - Góis, 2009

LANDCON 1010
 Overlap between the technologies
 Three of them are located above 0,5 - good options concerning sustainable development
 There is no clear identification of the best technology
 The participants concluded that all the technologies are important to achieve the
objective – reduce burned area
 Identification of economic, social and ecological criteria to evaluate the options
 Scoring the options and ranking using the Facilitator
 Final decision – Which technologies should be field-tested?

LANDCON 1010
 Final Decision
@ UA, 2009
Mação, 2009
@ ESAC, 2009
Góis, 2009
Prescribed Fire
Preventive Forestry - Primary Strip
Network System for Fuel Management

LANDCON 1010
 The WS initiative and methodology were highly appreciated;
 The methods promoted equal participation and an informal work environment;
 The field visits are very important, since they have the potential of putting
technical, scientific and local knowledge together;
 There is a high expectation in the implementation of these technologies,
however the short financial capacity is a huge constraint.
Lessons learned from this approach… stakeholders’ visions
 A third workshop to evaluate the technologies implementation;
 The need of further discussion and research on these topics.
Lessons learned from this approach… in the future

LANDCON 1010
Our greatest thanks…

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