Ecosystem Services and Community Forest Management: The case of Quintana Roo
- Authors
- L?pez P?rez, Jessica Liliana
- Format
- MasterThesis
- Status
- publishedVersion
- Description
Community Forest Management (CFM) has been recognised as an approach for achieving sustainability in forest systems due to it having the potential to conserve forests and their goods and services as well as enhance human livelihoods. Ecosystem goods and services have a particular importance because ecological functions and goods are directly or indirectly involved in human well-being, and also help address human needs and wants. However, the relationship between ecosystem goods and services and human well-being is poorly understood. In that regard, the social values of ecosystem goods and services show a strong link among ecosystem functions and structures and the fulfilment of human needs and wants. They are articularly significant because they help to identify what is important to local people and can support an understanding of the processes driving change in ecological systems. This research project aims to understand the social value of forest ecological goods and services (FEGS) and the role of CFM practices in the provision of important FEGS. In order to do so, it identified the social values of FEGS, as well as explored the role of local governance in local management practices, the perceptions of forest cover change and the implications of incorporating social values in payment for ecosystem services (PES) schemes.
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Language
- eng
- Topic
- COMMUNITY FOREST MANAGEMENT
SOCIAL VALUES
FORESTRY
ECOSYSTEMS GOODS AND SERVICES
- Repository
- Repositorio SENESCYT
- Rights
- openAccess
- License