RESTORE+ innovative session at the OSM - GLP 2019
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RESTORE+ has engaged with policymakers from different tropical regions who shared their perspectives on challenges of evidence-based policy making and how (scientific) experiences, developed within RESTORE+, can be communicated, implemented, and strengthened.
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During the fourth Open Science Meeting of the Global Land Programme (4th GLP - OSM 2019), on 24 April 2019 in Bern, (Switzerland), Florian Kraxner (IIASA) has coordinated an innovative session on “Participatory and evidence-based land use policy making”. The session showcased the results of our project which aspires to inform land use and restoration policies in Indonesia and Brazil through integrating participatory processes and big earth observation data analysis into land use modelling. Members of the Restore+ team shared their insights and experiences in communicating science to policymakers through presentations and a live demonstration of a dedicated mobile application.
Fernando Ramos (INPE) presented how RESTORE+ is estimating the costs and benefits, both economically and environmentally, of different native vegetation restoration scenarios, to inform on the best strategies for BRAZIL to attain the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) for mitigating climate change, that establishes a target of recovering 12 Mha of native vegetation by 2030.
Sonya Dewi (ICRAF) discussed how evidence-based policy making requires a suite of tools and data that can project plausible impacts when certain development plans and policies are implemented. The provided Indonesia example combines bottom-up stakeholder engagement with top-down modelling approaches to upscale and sustain the positive impacts of initiatives at site levels while ensuring consistency in informing policy makers at sub-national and national levels.
Steffen Fritz (IIASA) and Andree Ekadinata (ICRAF-IIASA) highlighted the use of web/mobile applications and crowdsourcing techniques, within the RESTORE+ approach, to engage local communities in ground-based data collection, satellite image interpretation and online interactive mapping. A live demo of the specifically developed tool (URUNDATA) has been presented and tested live. The crowdsourced inputs provided via this tool are used to collect key local-level insights on land use and land cover dynamics, valuable for modelling restoration potential and subsequent evidence-driven policy making.
Mauricio Antonio Lopes (President Emeritus of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation - EMBRAPA) and Anang Noegroho (Director for Food and Agriculture Indonesian Ministry of National Development Planning - BAPPENAS), have shared the challenges of evidence-based policy making in Brazil and Indonesia and discussed how the RESTORE+ proposed approach can be applied/strengthened to facilitate pan-tropical knowledge exchange on evidence-driven policymaking.
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Fernando Ramos (INPE) presented how RESTORE+ is estimating the costs and benefits, both economically and environmentally, of different native vegetation restoration scenarios, to inform on the best strategies for BRAZIL to attain the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) for mitigating climate change, that establishes a target of recovering 12 Mha of native vegetation by 2030.
Sonya Dewi (ICRAF) discussed how evidence-based policy making requires a suite of tools and data that can project plausible impacts when certain development plans and policies are implemented. The provided Indonesia example combines bottom-up stakeholder engagement with top-down modelling approaches to upscale and sustain the positive impacts of initiatives at site levels while ensuring consistency in informing policy makers at sub-national and national levels.
Steffen Fritz (IIASA) and Andree Ekadinata (ICRAF-IIASA) highlighted the use of web/mobile applications and crowdsourcing techniques, within the RESTORE+ approach, to engage local communities in ground-based data collection, satellite image interpretation and online interactive mapping. A live demo of the specifically developed tool (URUNDATA) has been presented and tested live. The crowdsourced inputs provided via this tool are used to collect key local-level insights on land use and land cover dynamics, valuable for modelling restoration potential and subsequent evidence-driven policy making.
Mauricio Antonio Lopes (President Emeritus of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation - EMBRAPA) and Anang Noegroho (Director for Food and Agriculture Indonesian Ministry of National Development Planning - BAPPENAS), have shared the challenges of evidence-based policy making in Brazil and Indonesia and discussed how the RESTORE+ proposed approach can be applied/strengthened to facilitate pan-tropical knowledge exchange on evidence-driven policymaking.
More coverage: IIASA
