Evaluation of Buffer Zone Effectiveness in Forest Biosphere Reserve Management - Global Insights and an Indonesian Case Study [Elektronische Ressource] / Marion Mehring

Evaluation of Buffer Zone Effectiveness in Forest Biosphere Reserve Management Global Insights and an Indonesian Case Study I n a u g u r a l d i s s e r t a t i o n zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades doctor rerum naturalium (Dr. rer. nat.) an der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald vorgelegt von Marion Mehring geboren am 30.01.1978 in Detlbach Greifswald, Februar 2011 Dekan: Prof. Dr. Klaus Fesser 1. Gutachter: Prof. Dr. Susanne Stoll-Kleemann 2. Gutachter: Prof. Dr. Ulrike Müller-Böker Tag der Promotion: 5. Juli 2011 to Jonathan and Eliana Summary Summary Indonesia is well-known for its ambivalent character of hosting high richness in biological diversity and being one of the three countries with highest amounts of deforestation and degradation worldwide. Forests in Indonesia are in particular threatened from expanding deforestation due to logging activities and conversion into agricultural land. International conservation conventions such as the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) claim to safeguard global biodiversity by significantly reducing the loss of biodiversity by 2010. The first goal of the CBD thus calls for conserving at least 10 % of each of the world’s ecological regions.