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Forest Sustainability in North Lebanon : A Challenging Complexity in a Changing Environment
Joint Authors
El-Hajj, Rita
Moukaddem, Tala
Khater, Carla
al-Jawhary, Dalia
Source
International Journal of Forestry Research
Issue
Vol. 2014, Issue 2014 (31 Dec. 2014), pp.1-12, 12 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2014-07-16
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
12
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Forests sustainability is a challenging task in a complex socioeconomic context.
North Lebanon is a critical zone harboring forests of key ecological value and is one of the most deprived regions in Lebanon with high poverty rates, where forests are heavily impacted by unsustainable anthropogenic practices.
In the global frame of climate change scenarios, this paper tests a multistakeholder, multidisciplinary approach for forest management, combining a joint participatory methodology with stakeholders along with field ecological surveys in the upper Akkar watershed (north Lebanon).
A set of participatory tools including stakeholder’s analysis, problem tree, objective tree, and scenario building are tailored to reach this goal.
Results exhibit that forest management is not only related to forests per se but also very much linked to the surrounding socioeconomic situation.
Involving not only strict silviculture interventions but also a definite consideration of community needs and local economy, the adoption of a multitool, multidisciplinary, multistakeholder approach combines all possible aspects of a challenging context and unfolds complementary processes which all feed back into one target.
Yet, it is a time-consuming process, which can easily drown financial and temporal resources and which can sometimes raise unrealistic expectations that are difficult to meet.
American Psychological Association (APA)
El-Hajj, Rita& al-Jawhary, Dalia& Moukaddem, Tala& Khater, Carla. 2014. Forest Sustainability in North Lebanon : A Challenging Complexity in a Changing Environment. International Journal of Forestry Research،Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-454910
Modern Language Association (MLA)
El-Hajj, Rita…[et al.]. Forest Sustainability in North Lebanon : A Challenging Complexity in a Changing Environment. International Journal of Forestry Research No. 2014 (2014), pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-454910
American Medical Association (AMA)
El-Hajj, Rita& al-Jawhary, Dalia& Moukaddem, Tala& Khater, Carla. Forest Sustainability in North Lebanon : A Challenging Complexity in a Changing Environment. International Journal of Forestry Research. 2014. Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-454910
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-454910