Browsing by Author "Seeland, Klaus"

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Actitudes de la Poblacion Ante el Bosque y sus Prestaciones Sociales
(1998) Schmithusen, Franz; Kazemi, Yves; Seeland, Klaus
"Actitudes de la poblacion ante el bosque y sus prestaciones sociales. Analisis de encuestas y articulos escogidos de las principales publicaciones forestales de Alemania, Austria y Suiza durante el periodo 1960 a 1995."
Forest Fires for Domestic and Commercial Use of Ecosystem Services: A Case Study in Andhra Pradesh, South India
(2011) Kohli, A.; Schmerbeck, J.; Seeland, Klaus
"The dependence of Indian village households on fire driven ecosystem services (ES) that forests are providing is the focus of this paper. A survey of 557 households in 14 villages was conducted and focus-group discussions and key person interviews in three villages in the northern part of the Sadhukonda Reserve Forest, Andhra Pradesh, were made. Local perceptions on the importance of fire related ES derived from the forest, their importance for domestic use as well as marketing and the income of the households have been surveyed. We found that in 10 out of 14 villages the households are highly dependent on fire driven ES for domestic use and the households of three where equally dependent on these ES for their income and subsistence. Amongst the fire driven ES, the use of grasses and fuel wood where the most frequently mentioned. According to the respondents’ opinion the fires were caused mainly by smokers, hunters and careless people. Despite the high dependency of people’s livelihoods on forest fires there is no proper fire management plan in place nor is fire integrated in the actual forest management plans. It is concluded that a fire off scenario would have a significant impact on local livelihoods and that fire policies and management plans have to be carefully revised taking this into consideration."
The Role of Indigenous Ecological Knowledge in Managing Rangelands Sustainability in Northern Iran
(2013) Ghorbani, Mehdi; Azarnivand, Hossein; Mehrabi, Ali Akbar; Jafari, Mohammad; Nayebi, Hooshang; Seeland, Klaus
"Pastoralists’ knowledge of adaptive rangeland management in Iran has long been only selectively analyzed and documented. This study attempts to rectify that by outlining the indigenous ecological knowledge of the pastoralists of Nariyan village in the Taleghan region of northern Iran, and by evaluating the influence of such knowledge on rangeland management. Local herd owners operate according to traditional herding practices; their knowledge of rangeland plants and principles of sustainable rangeland management is indigenous and is based on centuries of experience and observation. Their in-depth knowledge covers the medicinal properties of various local plant species and the palatability of the most salient forage species in terms of sustaining the sheep and goats that are their livelihood. This study investigates some of the traditional strategies of rangeland management used in the Taleghan region, the rationale and timing of livestock rotation in the rangelands, local landscape classification, and local know-how in animal husbandry, all of which are indispensable in contributing to the pastoralists’ survival and maintenance of the local environment."