New Directions for Participatory Land Use Planning: Can Bottom-up Approaches Achieve a Win-Win for Sustainable Development and Forest Conservation?

This brief assesses the potential of a bottom-up, multifunctional landscape-based approach: the participatory Forest and Agricultural Land Use Planning and Management (pFALUPAM). More specifically, this brief focuses on the ways in which this approach enables local socioeconomic development alongside forest resource conservation, a key high-level government objective and a proxy for environmental sustainability.

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Title New Directions for Participatory Land Use Planning: Can Bottom-up Approaches Achieve a Win-Win for Sustainable Development and Forest Conservation?
Description This brief assesses the potential of a bottom-up, multifunctional landscape-based approach: the participatory Forest and Agricultural Land Use Planning and Management (pFALUPAM). More specifically, this brief focuses on the ways in which this approach enables local socioeconomic development alongside forest resource conservation, a key high-level government objective and a proxy for environmental sustainability.
Agroecology Category
  • Sustainable food system
  • Natural resources governance
  • Collaboration
Agroecology Keyword
  • Land management
  • Participatory land use planning
  • Sustainable land management
  • Participatory approach
Contributing organisations NAFRI TABI project CDE
Author Ingalls, Micah L., Cornelia Hett, Phetsaphone Thanasack, Khamphou Phouyyavong, Rasso Bernhard, Yothin Chanthasumlet and Phaythoune Philakone.
Year 2019
Type of document Brief
Language English
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Country Lao PDR
Administrative Level 1
Administrative Level 2
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