From local scenarios to national maps: a participatory framework for envisioning the future of Tanzania

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dc.contributor.authorCapitani, Claudia
dc.contributor.authorMukama, Kusaga
dc.contributor.authorMbilinyi, Boniface
dc.contributor.authorMalugu, Isaac O.
dc.contributor.authorMunishi, Pantaleo K. T.
dc.contributor.authorBurgess, Neil D.
dc.contributor.authorPlatts, Philip J.
dc.contributor.authorSallu, Susannah M.
dc.contributor.authorMarchant, Robert
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-15T10:56:00Z
dc.date.available2023-06-15T10:56:00Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.descriptionJournal articleen_US
dc.description.abstractTackling societal and environmental challenges requires new approaches that connect top-down global oversight with bottom-up subnational knowledge. We present a novel framework for participatory development of spatially explicit scenarios at national scale that model socioeconomic and environmental dynamics by reconciling local stakeholder perspectives and national spatial data. We illustrate results generated by this approach and evaluate its potential to contribute to a greater understanding of the relationship between development pathways and sustainability. Using the lens of land use and land cover changes, and engaging 240 stakeholders representing subnational (seven forest management zones) and the national level, we applied the framework to assess alternative development strategies in the Tanzania mainland to the year 2025, under either a business as usual or a green development scenario. In the business as usual scenario, no productivity gain is expected, cultivated land expands by ~ 2% per year (up to 88,808 km2), with large impacts on woodlands and wetlands. Despite legal protection, encroachment of natural forest occurs along reserve borders. Additional wood demand leads to degradation, i.e., loss of tree cover and biomass, up to 80,426 km2 of wooded land. The alternative green economy scenario envisages decreasing degradation and deforestation with increasing productivity (+10%) and implementation of payment for ecosystem service schemes. In this scenario, cropland expands by 44,132 km2 and the additional degradation is limited to 35,778 km2. This scenario development framework captures perspectives and knowledge across a diverse range of stakeholders and regions. Although further effort is required to extend its applicability, improve users’ equity, and reduce costs the resulting spatial outputs can be used to inform national level planning and policy implementation associated with sustainable development, especially the REDD+ climate mitigation strategy.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipNorwegian Government through their Royal Embassy in Dar es Salaam and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland through the CHIESA project.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/5312
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherResilience Alliance Incen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEcology and Society , Sep 2016, Vol. 21, No. 3 (Sep 2016);
dc.subjectCoupled human-natural systemen_US
dc.subjectDeforestationen_US
dc.subjectEcosystem servicesen_US
dc.subjectLand use and land cover changeen_US
dc.subjectREDD+en_US
dc.subjectSustainable developmenten_US
dc.titleFrom local scenarios to national maps: a participatory framework for envisioning the future of Tanzaniaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.urlhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08565-210304en_US

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