College of Global Liberal Arts, Ritsumeikan University, Japan.
BlueNomads.Org Survey Philippines, Philippines.
Disasters. 2024 Jul;48 Suppl 1:e12630. doi: 10.1111/disa.12630. Epub 2024 Jun 5.
Mangrove forest is an ecosystem-based solution for disaster risk reduction in the Philippines, but its historical deforestation has hampered its capacity to protect coastal communities. With the increasing occurrence of storm surge in the Philippines, mangrove reforestation projects have received renewed attention, but many have failed. Community participation was deemed to be essential in those projects that did well. Hence, this paper examines successful mangrove restoration and rehabilitation projects in the Philippines to find out how community participation contributed to the accomplishments. The study found that while the transfer of science-based ecological knowledge from project managers to the community is an important factor in ensuring successful initial planning and implementation, its integration into existing local ecological knowledge-'localisation' of science-based ecological knowledge or hybrid ecological knowledge formation-helped to facilitate long-term community-based mangrove management beyond project duration by empowering community members and enabling project acceptance and ownership. Still, continuous local institutional support is a necessary anchor for community resilience.
红树林是菲律宾减少灾害风险的一种基于生态系统的解决方案，但由于其历史上的森林砍伐，阻碍了其保护沿海社区的能力。随着菲律宾风暴潮的日益频发，红树林重新造林项目重新受到关注，但许多项目都失败了。社区参与被认为是那些做得好的项目的关键。因此，本文考察了菲律宾成功的红树林恢复和修复项目，以了解社区参与如何促成这些项目的成功。研究发现，虽然将基于科学的生态知识从项目管理者转移到社区是确保初始规划和实施成功的一个重要因素，但将其融入现有的当地生态知识——科学的生态知识的本地化或混合生态知识的形成——通过赋予社区成员权力并使项目得到接受和拥有，有助于在项目期限之外长期进行基于社区的红树林管理。尽管如此，持续的地方机构支持仍然是社区恢复力的必要基础。
