Beschreibung:
Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and enhancing forest carbon stocks (REDD+) interventions can help both people and forests adapt to climate change by conserving or enhancing biodiversity and forest ecosystem services. However, additional adaptation measures might be needed, such as the protection of agriculture and livelihoods for communities and the development of fire management strategies in forests. Such measures could support the sustainability of REDD+ interventions and the permanence of carbon stocks by preventing activity displacement and induced deforestation and by limiting or avoiding damage to the ecosystem from extreme weather events. To design community-based adaptation interventions and assess their potential outcomes within a REDD+ project area, community members from Setulang Village, Malinau District, formerly in East Kalimantan Province (now North Kalimantan) were involved in a bottom-up, stakeholder-focused process. A social return on investment framework was applied. Community representatives discussed climate and non-climate challenges and the effectiveness of their current coping strategies ...