CLIMATE RESILIENCE OF RESTORED FOREST LANDSCAPES

恢复森林景观的气候适应能力

• 批准号: NE/V008714/1
• 负责人: Rosalind Cornforth
• 金额: $ 12.47万
• 依托单位: University of Reading
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FV008714%2F1
• 关键词: CLIMATE; RESILIENCE; RESTORED; FOREST; LANDSCAPES

2021-30 will be the UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration. This Seedcorn project will establish collaboration between researchers from Uganda and the UK with expertise in climate, forest and livelihoods analysis. The Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) approach underpins international commitments to restore degraded landscapes such as the Bonn Challenge to restore 350 million hectares of forest worldwide by 2030, with the aim of delivering climate change mitigation and adaptation, as well as biodiversity benefits and enhancement of livelihoods. The FLR framework provides a list of different restoration activities that can be chosen depending on local circumstances, including plantations for harvest, forestry within agricultural systems (agroforestry), natural regeneration and mixed compositions of forest and agricultural or pastoral lands. The sensitivity and resilience of these different FLR activities to future climate impacts will vary and have profound implications for the resilience of local livelihoods. This project will take an interdisciplinary approach to assess the resilience of three different types of FLR undertaken at Environmental Conservation Trust of Uganda (EcoTrust) sites in Macinde, Uganda to climatic impacts. The three types of FLR are: agroforestry, plantations and natural regeneration. The research plan is split into three work packages: forest restoration stakeholder engagement and identification of research needs through a participatory workshop; synthesis of historical data on ecology, rainfall and livelihoods under different FLR approaches to assess their resilience to climatic variation in the past, as a guide to future sensitivity; and establishment of long-term monitoring of ecological and socio-economic outcomes of the different types of FLR in Macinde, Uganda. The collection and analysis of data from these FLR sites will build an important and unique dataset which will form the basis of future collaborative research proposals working with local forest restoration stakeholders to improve resilience of the landscape and livelihoods that depend on it.These activities deliver against the aims of the Seedcorn Fund by developing a new international collaboration with leading researchers in tropical forest landscape restoration (Dr Bernard Obaa & Dr Sarah Akello of Makerere University) and implementing partners on the ground (Pauline Nantongo, EcoTrust) as well as climate and livelihoods data synthesis (Prof Rosalind Cornforth & Dr Celia Petty of the Walker Institute, Moses Tumusiime of the Uganda National Meteorological Authority). All partners contribute specific intellectual expertise which together will build a multi-disciplinary research team, with the capacity to deliver research at the cutting edge of climate, forest and livelihoods fields. The Walker Institute contributes climate and livelihoods data synthesis, knowledge exchange and policy engagement. The College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at Makerere University, Uganda contributes technical forestry, restoration and ecological monitoring expertise. EcoTrust contributes expertise in financial flows, community engagement and participatory approaches to forest landscape restoration, as well as ecological monitoring. The Uganda National Meteorological Agency contributes expertise in weather and climate data monitoring, through Rainwatch-Uganda. This new team will provide a basis for long-term collaboration to assess resilience of restoration projects, through establishment of long-term monitoring at field sites in Uganda where novel multi-disciplinary research into climatic changes, ecological and livelihoods resilience can be conducted.

2021-30将是联合国生态系统修复的十年。这个种子康的项目将在乌干达和英国的研究人员之间建立合作，并在气候，森林和生计分析方面具有专业知识。森林景观修复（FLR）的方法是国际承诺恢复退化的景观的承诺，例如波恩挑战，到2030年恢复全球3.5亿公顷的森林，旨在提供气候变化的缓解和适应，以及生物益于生物的益处和谋生的生物益处和增强。 FLR框架提供了不同的恢复活动的列表，这些活动可以根据当地情况选择，包括收获的种植园，农业系统内的林业（农林业），自然再生以及森林和农业或牧场的混合组成。这些不同的FLR活动对未来气候影响的敏感性和韧性将有所不同，并对当地生计的韧性产生深远的影响。该项目将采用一种跨学科的方法来评估乌干达Macinde的乌干达环境保护信托基金会（Ecotrust）在乌干达的环境保护信托基金会进行的三种不同类型的FLR的弹性，以实现气候影响。 FLR的三种类型是：农林业，人工林和自然再生。研究计划分为三个工作包：通过参与式研讨会，森林恢复利益相关者参与和研究需求的确定；在不同的FLR方法下，关于生态学，降雨和生计的历史数据的综合，以评估其过去对气候变化的韧性，作为未来敏感性的指南；并建立对乌干达Macinde不同类型FLR的生态和社会经济结果的长期监测。来自这些FLR站点数据的数据的收集和分析将建立一个重要而独特的数据集，该数据将成为未来的协作研究建议的基础Makerere University）并在地面上实施合作伙伴（Pauline Nantongo，Ecotrust）以及气候和生计数据综合（Rosalind Cornforth教授和Walker Institute的Celia Petty教授，乌干达国家气象授权的Moses tumusiime）。所有合作伙伴都培养了特定的智力专业知识，该专业知识将共同建立一个多学科研究团队，并具有在气候，森林和生计领域的最前沿进行研究的能力。沃克研究所贡献了气候和生计数据综合，知识交流和政策参与。乌干达Makerere大学农业与环境科学学院贡献了技术林业，恢复和生态监测专业知识。 Ecotrust在金融流，社区参与和参与式森林景观恢复以及生态监测方面有助于专业知识。乌干达国家气象局通过Rainwatch-uganda在天气和气候数据监测方面贡献了专业知识。这个新团队将通过在乌干达的现场进行长期监测来为长期合作评估恢复项目的弹性提供基础，并在那里进行了对气候变化，生态和生计的复杂弹性的新型多学科研究。