Empowering commercial forestry:Incentives for small- and large-scale forests

(Australian & Global perspective)

Jerry Vanclay

Southern Cross UniversityAustralia

Empowering commercial forestry 1.Symptoms of a problem2. The real problem3. Towards a solution4. What we can do5. What we should do6. IUFRO-FORNESSA priorities

Symptoms of a problem

Roman 146 BC – 600 AD

Punic 1000 - 146 BC

Arab 700 – 1500 AD

Ottoman 1500 - 1880

Jebari et al 2012, Hydrological Sciences Journal 57 (5), 1–12

The problem:Forests we don’t want, do pay (risky, boring forests)

Forests we do want, don’t pay (diverse, ‘rich’ forests)

Science in the news this month - Lessons for us…

50 of us got stuck in the mud and died during a period of climate change…Are we stuck in the mud after Rio+20?

Transit of Venus: 1st cooperative big science

1716: Halley explained how to measure distance between earth and sun. Suggested observers in Norway, Canada & South Pacific.

1761: 120 observers from 9 nations,all unsuccessful due to bad weather.

1766: Preparations for 1769 transit begin, plans for observers in Norway, Canada, Tahiti.

1769: Cook observes transit in Tahiti… and also went on to claim Australia.

1771: Hornsby estimate within 0.8% of true.

The problem:Forests we don’t want, do pay (risky, boring forests)

Forests we do want, don’t pay (diverse, ‘rich’ forests)

Big marble + deep bowl = more resilience

Resilience at many scales…

Examples: Silviculture + Mensura on ≠ Success

Tenure

Regulations

Incentives

Local

National

Continental

Global

Silviculture

Management

Markets

Policy

Tenure

Regulations

Incentives

Green! – Getting Renewable Environs and Economies Now!

Fuelwood

Charcoal

Bushmeat

Building materials

Fodder

Green exercise

Biodiversity

Streams & rivers

Ecotourism

Medicinal plants

Rainbow water

REDD+

50% of $$$ on bureaucrats, compliance, prosecution

Incentives for Australia’s 100 most-threatened species, shared equally amongst these species

Payment on per-hectare basis to landholders who prove dependence (e.g. photos of breeding)

$/ha greater than many alternative land uses.

What is needed to enhance Goods & Services...?

Mafa Chipeta: “Africa REDD” – I differ slightly, and say “GREEN Africa”(remember GREEN, incentives for non-REDD incentives)

Implications for Researchers & Governance…?

TRI – how much, and how to implement locally relevant incentives.

TRI Green!Tenure, Regulations, Incentives for Getting Renewable Environs and Economies Now!