Transcript Overview of Integrated Landscape Land Use Planning

Overview of Integrated
Landscape Land Use
Planning
Mike Chaveas, US Forest Service
International Programs
CARPE Inception Workshop
Yaoundé, Cameroon
February 8th, 2007
Overview of Integrated Landscape
Land Use Planning
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Evolution of the CARPE landscape
approach
Reasons to Plan on Landscape scale
LUP in CARPE Context
Planning Concepts and Components
Zoning
Landscape and Macro-Zone Planning
Guides
Role USFS Can Play
Evolution of the CARPE Landscape
Approach
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Desire to focus USAID conservation
funding on priority regions
Areas of concern or high importance
chosen to work on larger scale
However, focus of activities still
heavily on Protected Areas
USFS was asked to assist with
planning processes at the landscape
scale
CARPE Results Framework:
Reduce the rate of forest degradation
and loss of biodiversity through
increased local, national, and
regional natural resource
management capacity.
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Intermediate Result 1
• Natural resources managed sustainably
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Ind 1: Number of landscapes and other focal
areas covered by integrated land use plans
Ind 2: Number of different use-zones (e.g.,
parks & PAs; CBNRM areas; forestry
concessions; plantations) within landscapes
with sustainable management plans
Why the USFS?
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Manage ~90 million Hectares under a Multiple
Use Mandate
Focus land use planning on landscape scale,
working with local communities, conservation
organizations and industry
Attempt to balance ecologic, social and
economic needs
Individual and agency experience in the
region, Africa and the world
Why Landscape Planning?
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Address issues larger than any single protected
area
Assess broader, wide-ranging trends,
influences, and impacts and identify the
appropriate management strategies
Considers ecological, social and economic
aspects of conservation
Why Landscape Planning?
• Broaden stakeholder involvement
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Improve collaboration
between multiple
management
authorities and other
partners
Planning efficiency:
planning cost/hectare
and improved
prioritization of use of
limited resources.
Why Landscape Planning Now?
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Concern timing is not appropriate
Management is Happening Now
• Concessions being granted
• Timber cut, oil and minerals extracted
• Bushmeat being hunted
• Land being cleared for agriculture
• Stakeholders not properly represented
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Planning can improve this management
Plan will not be perfect on first draft, but
still useful
What a Landscape Plan Is Not
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In CARPE context, not intended to
achieve formal government
designation or have landscape
recognized as official unit of
management
What a Landscape Plan Is
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Establishes Goals, Objectives,
Responsibilities and Priorities
Defines:
• What you want the land to look like and what
you want to get from it;
• How you’ll work to get it that way;
• Who will work get it that way; and
• When they’d like to get it that way.
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Identifies knowledge gaps and fills
knowledge gaps
Monitoring tool for USAID/CARPE
management
Landscape Planning in the
CARPE Context
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Plans demonstrate how CARPE implementing partners:
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assess and analyze issues, activities, resources and uses;
identify current resource protection priorities and trends;
consult, collaborate, and integrate stakeholders; and
focus management activities to achieve desired conditions.
Plans serve as performance monitoring tools for CARPE
management
Landscape Planning in the
CARPE Context
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CARPE implementing partners are not the
land management authority, therefore to
be effective must:
• Form strong partnerships with government
agencies
• Work through consensus of local
communities and other stakeholders
• Form alliances with industry
Landscape Planning in the
CARPE Context
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CARPE landscape land use planning prioritizes
three types of “macro-zones”:
• Protected Areas (PA),
• Community Based Natural Resource
Management (CBNRM) zones,
• Extractive Resource
Zones (ERZ).
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Macro-zone
management plans
incorporated into
overarching Integrated
Landscape Land Use Plan
CARPE Land Use Planning Guides
Integrated Landscape Land Use Plan
Protected Area
Plan(s)
CBNRM Plan(s)
ERZ Plan(s)
• Landscape level plan sets broad goals, objectives,
• Macro-zone plans deal with management details
• USFS produced guides
- Target audience
- Provides “Tasks” for completion
• NGO approach will differ depending on presence of
formal authority
Key Planning Concepts
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Adaptive Management and Planning
Perfect Information Does Not Exist
• Planning helps identify critical gaps
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Prioritization of the Use of Limited Resources
Desired Condition Planning
Simplify, simplify, simplify
Key Plan Components
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Desired Conditions
Objectives
Macro and Microzones
Guidelines
Implementation
Schedules
Monitoring and
Information Needs
Assessment
Planning Constants
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Prioritizing use of Resources
Clearly articulating goals
Identifying and engaging
stakeholders
Zoning
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Macro-Zones:
• Delineated at Landscape planning level
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Often already established (PAs, legal
extraction concessions)
Refined at Macro-zone planning level
• Macro-Zoning entire landscape?
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Micro-Zones:
• Delineated at level of PA, CBNRM and
ERZ plans
Integrated Landscape
Land Use Planning Guide
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Landscape is a CARPE construct
Not intended to force recognition of
landscape by national governments
as a legal entity
Tool for implementing NGOs in
planning their approach on landscape
Standardizes the process
Desired Conditions and Objectives
set broad goals for NGOs operations
across macro-zones in landscape.
Protected Area Planning Guide
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Refining boundaries
Evaluating PA’s official status and
management capacity of Gov authority
Describing Desired Conditions
Identifying management
Objectives to achieve
Desired Conditions
Defining Guidelines
Micro-zoning
Monitoring and Feedback
PA Planning Challenges and
Lessons
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Hesitant to embrace adaptive
management
People in parks
Resource prioritization and
partnerships
Tendency toward large descriptive
documents
Micro-Zoning
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Different
management needs
and objectives in
different parts of
macro-zone
Management actions
should differ from
rest of macro-zone
to create a microzone
Entire macro-zone
need not be microzoned
Fewer micro-zones
is preferable
CBNRM Planning Guide
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Assist in organization of communities to
help them manage their resources
Identifying “communities” and prioritizing
which to work with
Ensuring full participation/representation
Desired Conditions/Objectives of the
community (may not
match yours)
Micro-zoning based
on needs of
community
Guidelines
ERZ Planning Guide
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Not creating a operational management plan
What to look for in a responsible timber or
mining management plan
Partnership opportunities. Role of NGO may
vary widely:
• Assist with wildlife/habitat safeguards
• Working with community stakeholders
• Wider ranging
environmental safeguards
• Providing incentives for
improved management
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Plan to find your niche
in the ERZ
How The USFS Can Assist
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Guides
Technical assistance on planning as a
whole or components of plans as
process moves forward
Government to Government relations
Thank you for
your attention!
Questions /
Discussion