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🔴 #HappeningNow Exploring Criteria and Indicators for Tropical Peatland Restorations: Synthesis and Way Forward

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The #SWAMP Webinar Series began in September; and today’s culminating session aims to facilitate interactive discussions and present a synthesis of new insights and information exchanged during the past webinars

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Determining C&I may also be an iterative process

Indicators need to be monitored, says Budi S Wardhana of @BRG_Indonesia.

There are still challenges along the way:

✔️Cost
✔️Time
✔️Ease of use
✔️Reliability
✔️Efficacy for adjustment/corrective action

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⚠️ 4️⃣ Things That Could Go Wrong

🔸Over-reliance on single indicators
🔸 Reporting indicators w/o contextual data
🔸 Accurate indicators but nobody can measure
🔸 Monitoring w/o benefits for local communities

“What we measure matters,”
- @profmarkreed, @SRUC

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💡CIFOR Scientist @hpurnomo3 stresses the importance of ~suitability~ of C&I, and how they should be localized.

A specific example: Even the word #sustainability is locally and culturally-defined

Here some recommendations in determining suitability of C&I ⤵️
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#HappeningNow: Breakout sessions on C&I attributes in the context of ongoing restoration when degraded #peatlands are rewetted, revegetated and economic activities are revitalized

🔸 Biophysical
🔸 Social
🔸 Economic
🔸 Governance

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📌 Overview of biophysical aspects for C&I:

- Peat carbon dynamics for effective restoration
- Peatland hydrological balance (rewetting to restore integrity)
- Peatland fire assessment (reducing vulnerability, enhancing restoration success)

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📌 Economic aspects:

- Addressing gaps in economic indicators of peatland restoration
- Assessing livelihood development in peat-dependent communities
- Leveraging goods & environmental services benefits of restoration

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📌 Social aspects: People and communities

- Local institutions and social cohesiveness for safeguarding peatlands
- Mapping social connections and relationships
- Role of private sectors in supporting community initiatives towards protection and restoration

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📌 The Role of Governance in Restoration

- Local governance to facilitate sustainable peatland management
- Regulatory and policy measures to support initiatives
- Participatory governance towards #greengrowth in peatland landscape

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C&I are progressive and dynamic, says Dr. Haris Gunawan of @BRG_Indonesia. These should also be informed by trans-disciplinary collaboration and develop participatory approaches at the local level

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And that’s a wrap on #SWAMP’s Webinar Series! Links to the recorded sessions & presentations will be shared once available

Many thanks to our speakers/panelists and participants who spent time with us, and we look forward to seeing you in our future events 🙌🏼

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