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Ramón Vallejo
Prevention and Restoration
Actions to Combat
Desertification –
An integrated Assessment
http://www.ceam.es/practice http://practice-netweb.eu
Meeting of Coordinators – Urban, Soil, Desertification and Land Degradation , Brussels, 22-23th October 2012
To create an international platform of long-term monitoring (LTEM) sites. To share and transfer evaluation methods and good practices
PRACTICE objectives
WP1
WP2
To develop an integrated assessment protocol (IApro) for prevention and restoration actions
WP3
To evaluate and exchange knowledge on prevention and restoration techniques and strategies (linking evaluation with education, knowledge sharing and dissemination)
Meeting of Coordinators – Urban, Soil, Desertification and Land Degradation , Brussels, 22-23th October 2012
What is PRACTICE about ?
Evaluation of actions
Participatory assessment
Actions to combat desertification
Knowledge exchange
and social learning
Adoption
of good
practices
Meeting of Coordinators – Urban, Soil, Desertification and Land Degradation , Brussels, 22-23th October 2012
Actions to combat
land degradation
Improved actions
Increased adoption
Evaluation
Integrated
Participatory
and
Social learning
Engagement
Key common
Indicators
Scientists
Site-specific
Indicators
Stakeholders
A Framework for Evaluation of Actions and Indicator Selection
Meeting of Coordinators – Urban, Soil, Desertification and Land Degradation , Brussels, 22-23th October 2012
LTEMs: 18 (+1) sites in 12 countries. Mediterranean Europe (Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal), Africa (Morocco, Namibia, South Africa), Middle East (Israel), China, and South and North America (Chile, Mexico, and USA)
WP1. Worldwide Platform of Long Term Monitoring Sites (LTEMs)
Meeting of Coordinators – Urban, Soil, Desertification and Land Degradation , Brussels, 22-23th October 2012
LTEMs: LAND USE/LAND COVER
TYPES
Woodlands Rangelands
CHANGCHLING, China
LAGADAS, Greece
Croplands
CASTRO VERDE, Portugal OUED DLIM, Morocco
AGOST, Spain
LAS CAÑAS, Chile
WP3. Assessment
Meeting of Coordinators – Urban, Soil, Desertification and Land Degradation , Brussels, 22-23th October 2012
LTEMs: DESERTIFICATION DRIVERS
Overgrazing
EL SALADO, Chile
Fire recurrence map
AYORA, Spain
Overexploitation of fuel-wood
Unsustainable agricultural practices
Recurrent forest fires
PULA, Italy
WP3. Assessment
Meeting of Coordinators – Urban, Soil, Desertification and Land Degradation , Brussels, 22-23th October 2012
Dryland restoration
ALBATERA, Spain
YATIR, Israel
Afforestation
Great bustard
CASTRO VERDE, Portugal Landscape restoration
Habitat conservation
Sustainable grazing and range management
GELLAP OST/NABAOS, Namibia
Grazing control
OUED DLIM, Morocco
Fodder shrub plantations
EL SALADO, Mexico
Restoration of pastures
LTEMs: PREVENTION-RESTORATION ACTIONS
MIER site SA
WP3. Assessment
Meeting of Coordinators – Urban, Soil, Desertification and Land Degradation , Brussels, 22-23th October 2012
Soil conservation practices
EL SALADO, Chile
Soil erosion control
Forest and fire hazard management (fuel control treatments)
PULA, Italy
Watershed management
SAN SIMÓN, USA
AYORA, Spain
LTEMs: PREVENTION-RESTORATION ACTIONS
WP3. Assessment
Meeting of Coordinators – Urban, Soil, Desertification and Land Degradation , Brussels, 22-23th October 2012
IAPro structure
•Standard methods
•Selected by local team
•RS, where suitable
•Functional approaches
•Connectivity metrics
Data on (common) indicators
Meeting of Coordinators – Urban, Soil, Desertification and Land Degradation , Brussels, 22-23th October 2012
The components for MCDA ranking of management/restoration actions
Relative weight of
the indicators
Ranking of
management/rest
oration actions
Values for the
indicators
Present Step5 (MCDA) results
Meeting of Coordinators – Urban, Soil, Desertification and Land Degradation , Brussels, 22-23th October 2012
Outranking results of the actions in the duneveld based on group normalized weights for all indicators
Re-vegetation
Dune stabilization Bush control
Grazing
management
Direction of outranking
better worse
Meeting of Coordinators – Urban, Soil, Desertification and Land Degradation , Brussels, 22-23th October 2012
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Post-fire shrubland Post-fire pine reforestation
Dense pine forest (natural post-fire
regeneration)
Thinning of dense post-fire pine forest
%Initial Evaluation by Stakeholders
Very bad Bad Moderate Very good Excellent
2.8
3.3
2.7
4.4
Meeting of Coordinators – Urban, Soil, Desertification and Land Degradation , Brussels, 22-23th October 2012
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Post-fire shrubland Post-fire pine reforestation
Dense pine forest (natural post-fire
regeneration)
Thinning of dense post-fire pine forest
%
Initial Evaluation by Stakeholders
Very bad Bad Moderate Very good Excellent
2.8
3.3
2.7
4.4
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
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90
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Post-fire shrubland Post-fire pine reforestation
Dense pine forest (natural post-fire
regeneration)
Thinning of dense post-fire pine forest
%
Final Evaluation by Stakeholders
Very bad Bad Moderate Very good Excellent
2.9 3.0
2.7
4.7
Meeting of Coordinators – Urban, Soil, Desertification and Land Degradation , Brussels, 22-23th October 2012
Meeting of Coordinators – Urban, Soil, Desertification and Land Degradation , Brussels, 22-23th October 2012