Mangrove Rehabilitation in the West coast of Aceh - Issues and Perspectives

U. Kanagaratnam, A.M. Schwarz, D. Adhuri and M.M. Dey

Naga, 2006, vol. 29, issue 3/4, 10-18

Abstract: The condition of mangroves pre- and post- tsunami and the socioeconomic role of mangrove forests in the livelihoods of coastal communities along the west coast of Aceh province, Indonesia are examined. The findings indicate that community livelihoods are significantly linked to the mangrove ecosystem. However, most of the mangrove rehabilitation programs are conservation orientated, aimed primarily at land conservation, and are not necessarily linked with livelihood options for local people or integrated resource management. This is a cause for concern as rehabilitation will only succeed when conservation measures are balanced with local community needs to obtain sustainable benefits from the rehabilitated systems. The rehabilitation efforts do involve the communities to a certain extent, but a more holistic and integrated approach needs to be adopted to ensure better management and sustainability of the rehabilitated mangrove forests.

Keywords: Mangroves; Coastal zone; ISEW; Indonesia; Aceh (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12348/1767 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wfi:wfnaga:37136

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Naga from The WorldFish Center Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by William Ko ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).