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Sushma Bhattarai
Institute of Forestry, Tribhuvan University, Pokhara 33700, Nepal

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Journal article
Published: 07 May 2021 in Sustainability
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Deforestation and forest degradation mostly caused by human interventions affect the capacity of the forest ecosystem to provide ecosystem services and livelihood benefits. Forest and landscape restoration (FLR) is an emerging concept that focuses on the improvement of the ecosystem as well as the livelihood of the people at the landscape level. Nepal has successfully recovered degraded forest land mainly from the hilly region through forest restoration initiatives, especially community-based forestry. However, the Tarai region is still experiencing deforestation and forest degradation. This study navigated the gaps related to forest restoration in the existing policies and practices and revealed that the persistence of deforestation and forest degradation in Tarai is a result of a complex socioeconomic structure, the limitations of the government in implementing appropriate management modality, unplanned infrastructure, and urban development. We suggest that forest restoration should focus on ecological and social wellbeing pathways at the landscape level to reverse the trend of deforestation and forest degradation in the Tarai regions of Nepal. The study provides critical insight to the policymakers and practitioners of Nepal and other countries (with similar context) who are engaged in forest/ecosystem restoration enterprise.

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Sushma Bhattarai; Basant Pant; Hari Laudari; Rajesh Rai; Sharif Mukul. Strategic Pathways to Scale up Forest and Landscape Restoration: Insights from Nepal’s Tarai. Sustainability 2021, 13, 5237 .

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Sushma Bhattarai, Basant Pant, Hari Laudari, Rajesh Rai, Sharif Mukul. Strategic Pathways to Scale up Forest and Landscape Restoration: Insights from Nepal’s Tarai. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (9):5237.

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Sushma Bhattarai; Basant Pant; Hari Laudari; Rajesh Rai; Sharif Mukul. 2021. "Strategic Pathways to Scale up Forest and Landscape Restoration: Insights from Nepal’s Tarai." Sustainability 13, no. 9: 5237.

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Published: 09 April 2021
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Deforestation and forest degradation mostly caused by human interventions affects the capacity of forest ecosystem to provide ecosystem services and livelihood benefits. Forest Land Restoration (FLR) is an emerging concept which focuses on the improvement of ecosystem as well as livelihood of the people at the landscape level. Nepal has successfully recovered degraded forest land mainly from the hilly region through forest restoration initiatives especially community based forestry. However, the Terai region is still experiencing deforestation and forest degradation. This study navigated the gaps related to forest restoration in the existing policies and practices and revealed that the persistence of deforestation and forest degradation in Terai is a result of a complex socio-economic structure, limitation of government to implement appropriate management modality, unplanned infrastructure, and urban development. We suggest that forest restoration should focus on ecological and social wellbeing pathways at the landscape level, to reverse the trend of deforestation and forest degradation in the Terai regions of Nepal. The study provides a critical insight to the policy makers and practitioners of Nepal and other countries (with similar context) who are engaged in forest/ecosystem restoration enterprise.

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Sushma Bhattarai; Basant Pant; Hari Krishna Laudari; Rajesh Kumar Rai; Sharif A. Mukul. Strategic Pathways to Scale Up Forest and Landscape Restoration: Insights From Nepal’s Terai. 2021, 1 .

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Sushma Bhattarai, Basant Pant, Hari Krishna Laudari, Rajesh Kumar Rai, Sharif A. Mukul. Strategic Pathways to Scale Up Forest and Landscape Restoration: Insights From Nepal’s Terai. . 2021; ():1.

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Sushma Bhattarai; Basant Pant; Hari Krishna Laudari; Rajesh Kumar Rai; Sharif A. Mukul. 2021. "Strategic Pathways to Scale Up Forest and Landscape Restoration: Insights From Nepal’s Terai." , no. : 1.

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Published: 29 June 2016 in Carbon Balance and Management
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Implementation of REDD+ requires measurement and monitoring of carbon emissions from forest degradation in developing countries. Dry forests cover about 40 % of the total tropical forest area, are home to large populations, and hence often display high disturbance levels. They are susceptible to gradual but persistent degradation and monitoring needs to be low cost due to the low potential benefit from carbon accumulation per unit area. Indirect remote sensing approaches may provide estimates of subsistence wood extraction, but sampling of biomass loss produces zero-inflated continuous data that challenges conventional statistical approaches. We introduce the use of Tweedie Compound Poisson distributions from the exponential dispersion family with Generalized Linear Models (CPGLM) to predict biomass loss as a function of distance to nearest settlement in two forest areas in Tanzania. We found that distance to nearest settlement is a valid proxy variable for prediction of biomass loss from fuelwood collection (p < 0.001) and total subsistence wood extraction (p < 0.01). Biomass loss from commercial charcoal production did not follow a spatial pattern related to settlements. Distance to nearest settlement seems promising as proxy variable for estimation of subsistence wood extraction in dry forests in Tanzania. Tweedie GLM provided valid parameters from the over-dispersed continuous biomass loss data with exact zeroes, and observations with zero biomass loss were successfully included in the model parameters.

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Klaus Dons; Sushma Bhattarai; Henrik Meilby; Carsten Smith-Hall; Toke Emil Panduro. Indirect approach for estimation of forest degradation in non-intact dry forest: modelling biomass loss with Tweedie distributions. Carbon Balance and Management 2016, 11, 1 -10.

AMA Style

Klaus Dons, Sushma Bhattarai, Henrik Meilby, Carsten Smith-Hall, Toke Emil Panduro. Indirect approach for estimation of forest degradation in non-intact dry forest: modelling biomass loss with Tweedie distributions. Carbon Balance and Management. 2016; 11 (1):1-10.

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Klaus Dons; Sushma Bhattarai; Henrik Meilby; Carsten Smith-Hall; Toke Emil Panduro. 2016. "Indirect approach for estimation of forest degradation in non-intact dry forest: modelling biomass loss with Tweedie distributions." Carbon Balance and Management 11, no. 1: 1-10.