Forest Sustainability in North Lebanon: A Challenging Complexity in a Changing Environment
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 pr...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-cb4022f39e534a6d8d5295620c1ad7122025-02-03T05:47:12ZengWileyInternational Journal of Forestry Research1687-93681687-93762014-01-01201410.1155/2014/212316212316Forest Sustainability in North Lebanon: A Challenging Complexity in a Changing EnvironmentRita El-Hajj0Dalia Al-Jawhary1Tala Moukaddem2Carla Khater3National Council for Scientific Research, Center for Remote Sensing, P.O. Box 11-8281, Riad el Solh, Beirut, LebanonSociety for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon, Hamra, Abdel Aziz Street, P.O. Box 11-5665, Beirut, LebanonSociety for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon, Hamra, Abdel Aziz Street, P.O. Box 11-5665, Beirut, LebanonNational Council for Scientific Research, Center for Remote Sensing, P.O. Box 11-8281, Riad el Solh, Beirut, LebanonForests 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.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/212316 |
| spellingShingle | Rita El-Hajj Dalia Al-Jawhary Tala Moukaddem Carla Khater Forest Sustainability in North Lebanon: A Challenging Complexity in a Changing Environment International Journal of Forestry Research |
| title | Forest Sustainability in North Lebanon: A Challenging Complexity in a Changing Environment |
| title_full | Forest Sustainability in North Lebanon: A Challenging Complexity in a Changing Environment |
| title_fullStr | Forest Sustainability in North Lebanon: A Challenging Complexity in a Changing Environment |
| title_full_unstemmed | Forest Sustainability in North Lebanon: A Challenging Complexity in a Changing Environment |
| title_short | Forest Sustainability in North Lebanon: A Challenging Complexity in a Changing Environment |
| title_sort | forest sustainability in north lebanon a challenging complexity in a changing environment |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/212316 |
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