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ArticlePaying for cultural ecosystem services: the case of open space sects (Vapostori) in Bulawayo metropolitan province, Zimbabwe
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
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No results found.While religious entities have targeted ecosystem-service producing biodiversity in cities for worship purposes, this human encroachment by the itinerant Open Space Worship (OSW) Sects in Zimbabwe has pushed the frontiers of religion-environment component of the socio-ecological systems framework to conflictual relations. Due to the importance of urban green spaces’ function of carbon sequestration, scholars posit the quality of life in cities depends on locally produced ecosystem services. To ensure the delivery of urban ecosystem services there is need for assorted, multi-functional, and accessible blue and green infrastructure throughout our cities. It underscores the importance of green spaces in cities as key components of the socio-ecological systems framework where the natural forest wood serves as the carbon sink for sequestration and therefore human wellbeing. Anthropocentric OSW activities’ encroachment within these spaces calls for sustainable socio-ecological system management through responsive policies, which can benefit from the payment for ecosystem services using lease agreements and permits for open Worship Parks within cities to control access to the broader socio-ecological system (SESF) assets. All OSW sects studied in the City of Bulawayo use one form or another of ecosystem services and benefits, ranging from the provisioning, regulating, supporting and cultural ecosystem services. Open space worship sects are prepared to pay in cash for value accrued from green spaces they use. The study particularly responds to the demands and aspirations of SDG 11: Sustainable Cities, Communities, and SDGOAL 12: Responsible Consumption and Production. Keywords: Sustainable cities, communities, ecosystem-service, socio-ecological system, open-space worship sects ID: 3487348 -
ArticlePaying for cultural ecosystem services: the case of open space sects (Vapostori) in Bulawayo metropolitan province, Zimbabwe
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.While religious entities have targeted ecosystem-service producing biodiversity in cities for worship purposes, this human encroachment by the itinerant Open Space Worship (OSW) Sects in Zimbabwe has pushed the frontiers of religion-environment component of the socio-ecological systems framework to conflictual relations. Due to the importance of urban green spaces’ function of carbon sequestration, scholars posit the quality of life in cities depends on locally produced ecosystem services. To ensure the delivery of urban ecosystem services there is need for assorted, multi-functional, and accessible blue and green infrastructure throughout our cities. It underscores the importance of green spaces in cities as key components of the socio-ecological systems framework where the natural forest wood serves as the carbon sink for sequestration and therefore human wellbeing. Anthropocentric OSW activities’ encroachment within these spaces calls for sustainable socio-ecological system management through responsive policies, which can benefit from the payment for ecosystem services using lease agreements and permits for open Worship Parks within cities to control access to the broader socio-ecological system (SESF) assets. All OSW sects studied in the City of Bulawayo use one form or another of ecosystem services and benefits, ranging from the provisioning, regulating, supporting and cultural ecosystem services. Open space worship sects are prepared to pay in cash for value accrued from green spaces they use. The study particularly responds to the demands and aspirations of SDG 11: Sustainable Cities, Communities, and SDGOAL 12: Responsible Consumption and Production. Keywords: Sustainable cities, communities, ecosystem-service, socio-ecological system, pen-space worship sects ID: 3487348 -
ArticleAnalysis of the evolution of deforestation in the State of Acre, in the Acre riverbasin, in buffer and permanent protected areas, from 1997 to 2017
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
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No results found.The goal of this article is to quantify the area deforested up to 2017 and the evolution of deforestation over the last 20 years (1997-2017) in the state of Acre, with a closer look atthe categories oftheAcre River basin, alluvial forests buffer and legally protected riparianforests (APP) along the Acre River as well as the territorial categories of public areas and private or unincorporated areas. The Acre River Basin has great socioeconomic and environmentalrelevance for the state of Acre, concentrating 66.6% of the state's total population. It is connected by road with the Pacific, and contains 49 family farm settlement projects and has 36% of its area in protected areas. The results of the comparisons between the percentages of deforested areas and the evolution of deforestation in these categories shows that the APP and buffer of alluvial forests had the highest percentage of deforestedareas, with 48% and 45%, respectively. The evolution of deforestation in these areas nearthe Acre River also shows that it acted as a vector of deforestation, with private or unincorporated areas as the main drivers. Smallholder farmers in settlement projects had a deforestation pattern that increased with distance from the river, while the traditional populations of the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve and the indigenous populations of the Acre River Headland Indigenous Land had a pattern of greater deforestation closest to the river. Keywords: Amazon, Public and Private Areas, Riparian Forests, Vector of Deforstatiton. ID: 3622253
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