An
International Short Course
Turrialba, Costa Rica
21-25 February 2000
Sponsored by CATIE and
IUFRO 4.02
Objective
- to provide
participants enough experience and background material so they can go back
home and design an MRI and/or conduct a national/regional training session
in their own country.
Justification -Implementation
of forest resource planning and strategies in most of the world is very
poor and frequently lacking. Forest policies are, in many cases, inappropiate
and hardly applicable. Forest management success is dependent on how other
resources (agriculture, wildlife, etc.) are managed. As a result, natural
resource degradation continues at increasing rate, fostered by its most
important incentive, population growth in rural areas. This in turn, enhances
poverty in human populations inhabiting natural ecosystems and rural lands.
This situation is fully evident south of the U.S. border, over the rest
of the American continent.
One of the main constraints that developing countries face for reversing the present forest resource destruction trend, is lack of reliable information. Most of the third world ignores the magnitude of its natural resources and hence ignores as well, the potential contribution of their forests and other natural ecosystems to alleviate poverty of rural communities and improve national welfare in general.
To
overcome the basic problem cited above, training on practical procedures
for inventorying natural resources is urgently needed in Latin American
and in developing countries. The United States and IUFRO expertise on the
subject will be successfully combined to implement a course on “Multi Resource
Inventory” channalized to professionals directly involved with natural
resource management and decision making in developing world.CATIE,
an international center strategically located in Costa Rica, Central America,
provides an interesting and valuable site for conducting this short course.
MONDAY21
FEB.
AM
Section
I - Opening (21 Feb.) - 1 hour
¨Welcome
¨Objectives
¨Introductions
and expectations
Session
II - Setting the stage -Lund
¨Lecture:
Multipurpose Resource Inventories - what are they
¨Lecture:Creating
an effective infrastructure
¨Exercise:
Creating an effective infrastructure
¨Lecture:
Creating a Vision and establishing objectives
¨Exercise:
Information Needs Assessment.
PM
¨Reports:INA
exercise
¨Lecture:
Assembling and evaluating existing info.
¨Exercise:
Evaluation of existing info.
TUESDAY 22 FEB
AM
Session II - Setting the stage continued -Lund
¨Reports:
Existing Info.
¨Lecture:
Establishing the Inventory needs and objective
¨Developing
the MRI plan
¨Establishing
and maintaining the information system
¨Exercise:
Developing MRI plan
¨Report:
MRI Plan
PM
Section
III - Developing the inventory - Czaplewski and Schreuder
¨Lecture:
Collecting data (including use of remote sensing): logistics of time and
space
¨Sampling
frames
¨Incorporation
of remotely sensed data with field sampling
¨Unequal
probability sampling for rare or featured characteristics
¨Stratification
to improve efficiency or precision
¨Sampling
in mixed forest and agricultural landscapes
¨Design
of primary and secondary sampling units
¨Sub-sampling
with equal or unequal probability within primary sampling units
¨Exercise:
Application of statistical principles to participants' case studies:
WEDNESDAY23
FEB (or THURSDAY) -ALL DAY -
Field
trip to discuss inventory strategies and test plot designs. Kleinn, Czaplewski,
Schreuder (Lund and Rudis for planning and non-timber resources)
THURSDAY
24 FEB
AM
Section
III - Developing the inventory continued : Czaplewski and Schreuder
¨Reports:
Feedback on field trip - lessons learned or not learned
PM
Section
IV - Analysis, documentation - Rudis
¨Lecture:
Providing for quality assurance: qualitative and quantitative measures
¨Direct
measures of non-timber resource stocks - Wildlife Habitat, Recreation Resource
Inventory Criteria
¨Indirect
measures of processes (energy flows) (Resource Value Indicators: Human
and Landscape Scale Dimensions, and Disturbance and Human Impact Indicators)
¨Exercise:
Development of Criteria and Indicators, with QA
FRIDAY
25 FEB
AM
Section
IV - Analysis, documentation continued - Rudis
¨Report:
QA exercise
¨Lecture:
Discussion of likely analysis and needed documentation
¨Analysis:
barriers (social, political, disciplinary jargon, linear thinking) opportunities
(GIS, team approaches, systems thinking) generic habitat evaluation indicators
ecological process-driven resource assessments
¨Sharing:
avoiding jargon, identifying stakeholders, potential audiences incorporation
of secondary data and stakeholder perspectives to achieve objectives scale
(temporal, spatial)
¨Communicating:Internet
outlets popular and peer-reviewed outlets graphics, maps, data layers for
GIS applications
¨Evaluating:statistical
reliability with multi-discipline perspectives,
¨Documenting:multi-discipline
data dissemination (Web) for the short term updating and revising. analytical
protocol archives for the long term maintaining feedback systems: e.g.,
tracking data use and users
¨Exercise: Practice in using available data, documentation, and tools to address resource issues of interest.
PM
Session V - Closeout - Miguel Caballero-Deloya
¨Critique
¨Wrapup
Language:The
course will be taught in English
Contact:
Dr.
Miguel Caballero Deloya
Head.
Area of Environmental Economics and Sociology.
Research
Program
CATIE
7170. Turrialba
Costa
Rica.
TELFAX:
556 8514
Tel:
556 6431 Ext. 2522.
Electronic
mail: caballer@catie.ac.cr