The community capacity curve applied to reforestation: a framework to support success

John Herbohn; Liz Ota; Nestor Gregorio; Robin Chazdon; Robert Fisher; Jack Baynes; Grahame Applegate; Tony Page; Dora Carias; Claudia Romero; Francis E. Putz; Jennifer Firn

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The community capacity curve applied to reforestation: a framework to support success

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The community capacity curve applied to reforestation: a framework to support success

John Herbohn, Liz Ota, Nestor Gregorio, Robin Chazdon, Robert Fisher, Jack Baynes, Grahame Applegate, Tony Page, Dora Carias, Claudia Romero, …

Royal Society of London. Philosophical Transactions B. Biological Sciences, Vol.378(1867), pp.1-15

2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0079

PMCID: PMC9661947

PMID: 36373918

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Community Capitals Framework

Community Forestry

Forest And Landscape Restoration

Forest Restoration

Part I: Pathways And Constraints For Forest Restoration

Sustainable Livelihoods Framework

Community involvement is critical for the success of many interventions designed to promote reforestation. To secure this involvement, it helps to recognize that communities are heterogenous both within and among themselves and possess diverse mixes of livelihood assets required to implement reforestation. We explore the relationship between livelihood assets and reforestation success and outline a conceptual model that we call the community capacity curve (CCC) applied to reforestation. We argue that the shape of the CCC is sigmoidal. Importantly, communities at the lower end of the CCC have limited capacity to implement reforestation projects without substantial and ongoing capacity building and other sorts of support, including through livelihood projects that improve food security and provide cash benefits. Communities at the higher part of the CCC have greater capacity to implement reforestation projects, especially projects focused on biodiversity and environmental services. The CCC can help design, implement, monitor and assess reforestation projects, select appropriate livelihood activities and types of reforestation, select communities suited to a reforestation project, guide implementation and understand projects' successes and failure. The CCC also provides a framework to engage with policy makers and funding bodies to explore the types of support for communities to reforest successfully. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Understanding forest landscape restoration: reinforcing scientific foundations for the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration’.

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Title: The community capacity curve applied to reforestation: a framework to support success
Authors: John Herbohn (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Tropical Forests and People Research Centre
Liz Ota (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Tropical Forests and People Research Centre
Nestor Gregorio (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Tropical Forests and People Research Centre
Robin Chazdon (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Tropical Forests and People Research Centre
Robert Fisher (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Tropical Forests and People Research Centre
Jack Baynes (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Tropical Forests and People Research Centre
Grahame Applegate (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Tropical Forests and People Research Centre
Tony Page (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Tropical Forests and People Research Centre
Dora Carias (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Tropical Forests and People Research Centre
Claudia Romero (Author) - University of Florida
Francis E. Putz (Author) - Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-8526, USA
Jennifer Firn (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Publication details: Royal Society of London. Philosophical Transactions B. Biological Sciences, Vol.378(1867), pp.1-15
Publisher: The Royal Society Publishing
Date published: 2023
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0079
ISSN: 1471-2970
PMID: 36373918; PMC9661947
Copyright note: © 2022 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.
Grant note: ASEM/2016/103; FST/2016/153; FST/2016/154 / Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000974)
Organisation Unit: Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research; Tropical Forests and People Research Centre; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Forest Industries Research Centre; Forest Research Institute; Sustainability Research Cluster
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99690698302621
Output Type: Journal article

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