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Classifying and evaluating the Meditereanean forests Ecosystem Services in Northern area of Jordangene in children and adolescents

مجال مشروع البحث–الرئيسي: العلوم البيئية
مجال مشروع البحث–الثانوي: العلوم البيئية
المؤسسة العلمية: الجامعة الأردنية
المحافظة: عمان
قيمة الدعم: JD8352.76
سنة الدعم: 2012
حالة المشروع: منتهي مع النشر
البحث منشور: (1) Nawash, O., Al-Assaf, A., El-oqlah, A., & Omari, M. (2014). Floristic features, distribution, and ethnobotany of plants gathered and used by local people from the Mediterranean forest in Northern Jordan. Ethnobotany Research and Applications, 12, 385-396. (2) Al-assaf, A., Nawash, O., & Omari, M. (2014). Identifying forest ecosystem services through socio-ecological bundles: a case study from northern Jordan. International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology, 21(4), 314-321. (3) Al-Assaf, A. A. (2015). Applying contingent valuation to measure the economic value of forest services: a case study in Northern Jordan. International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology, 22(3), 242-250. (4) Al-Assaf, A. A., Al-Asmar, Y. Y., Johnsen-Harris, B. D., & Al-Raggad, M. M. (2016). Spatial mapping of the social value of forest services: A case study of northern Jordan. Journal of Sustainable Forestry, 35(7), 469-485.
ملخص عن مشروع البحث: 1. Understanding the distribution and floristic features of native forest plants, as well as the reasons that lead local people to collect them, is of great value for planning and implementing forest conservation and rehabilitation projects in the Mediterranean forest involving local communities. The aims of this study were to (1) investigate the distribution pattern, (2) analyze the floristic features, and (3) investigate the main uses of plants gathered from three Mediterranean forest ecosystems in Northern Jordan. We sampled 14 villages that were selected according to their location on the edge and within the three Mediterranean forest types in Northern Jordan. Three hundred informants were interviewed face to face using a semi-structured questionnaire. The data obtained included a list of plants collected and their uses. A Detrended Correspondence Analysis (DCA) was carried out to investigate the distribution of plant species collected from the three forest types. Also, important indices were calculated including Informant Consensus Factor (ICF), Fidelity Level (FL%), and uses totaled. The DCA showed that there are common plant species gathered intensively from all three forest types, namely Origanum syriacum L., Malva parviflora L., and Arum palaestinum Boiss., and that some plant species are collected from a particular forest type. The main uses of the collected plants are food and medicine. The study results suggest value in taking into account the behavior of people who collect native forest plants when designing fragile forest ecosystem restoration programs. These programs should be community-based in order to achieve ecosystem sustainability and prevent biodiversity erosion. http://www.ethnobotanyjournal.org/era/index.php/era/article/view/986 2. This study aims to identify services provided by forest ecosystems based on locals’ perceptions in the northern part of Jordan. By better understanding preferences of locals and by understanding why they value certain services more heavily, policy-makers and planning managers can make more effective decisions regarding development and conservation. Three hundred respondents were interviewed in order to collect information about forest ecosystem services (ES). Data collection was conducted using a structured questionnaire regarding ES provided by three forest types situated in northern Jordan. ES trade-offs and socio-ecological bundles were identified by analyzing respondents’ socioeconomic demographics and preferences of forest ES through multivariate canonical corresponding analysis (CCA). The statistical analysis indicated that the socioeconomic factors and forest type have an effect on social preferences toward ES. Results displayed a clear trade-off between provisioning services and regulating and cultural services. CCA demonstrated that 73% of the variation in ES value is explained by social factors (i.e. education level, income level, and gender), while 26% of perception variation was attributable to categories of ES supplied by each forest ecosystem. These findings imply that involving people in the place-specific management of public forests using the ES approach gives managers a clearer understanding of the benefits people recognize and value, as well as those they either are not aware of or do not value. Such information is useful in forest management and in public outreach. Although direct policy applications are limited by the research’s nature, the paper provides a starting point for incorporating forest users’ voices into policy discussions and management design. https://www.cabdirect.org/cabdirect/abstract/20143357004 3. This paper reports an attempt to apply the contingent valuation method (CVM) to value ecosystem services in Jordan’s northern forests. I employed the CVM to obtain an estimate for the population’s willingness to pay (WTP) for restoration and conservation of services in this area. I sampled 300 rural households through in-person interviews, then applied two econometric models to examine the incentives for WTP. The aggregate present value benefit is 3,569,556 Jordanian Dinar for the whole of Jordan’s northern forests; this valuation is based on the amount participants were willing to contribute to maintain forest ecosystem services. The conservation cost is assumed to reflect the direct value gained from human utilization of forest services. Results suggest a correlation between WTP and household income, as well as WTP and classification of services. I assess that income and forest service type most directly shaped participants’ WTP for forest conservation. The study also indicates that the CVM can successfully be applied to Jordan and may be a viable and potentially useful direction for future research on environment valuation in other developing countries in the Middle East. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13504509.2015.1004379 4. Despite the growing body of research on ecosystem services and their valuation, Jordan still faces many challenges with integration of ecosystem service concepts into forest sustainability policy and management planning. One major challenge is the incorporation of local communities into policy design, planning, and implementation. This article aims to provide information about the social value of forests’ provisioning and cultural services in a spatial context using Geographical Information Systems (GIS). The study utilizes a new approach to mapping value in rural areas by projecting local forest value from interview data. A value index is created based on indicated importance of services as well as proximity to households, permitting interpolation of value in forested areas between survey points. The resulting maps illustrate ecosystem service “hotspot” areas of significance to planning and management. This mapping technique can be applied in other locations where homes are situated near and within the ecosystems being assessed. The resulting maps serve to inform forest management policy and planning by better integrating communities’ preferences into development and conservation efforts, ensuring more efficient utilization of ecosystem services. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10549811.2016.1212381