Selected Resources Part II

Equity in Spatial Distribution of Inner Forests

• Urban Forestry Toolkit (Equity) | Vibrant Cities Lab
  An introduction to incorporating equity concerns during urban forest planning by the Vibrant Cities Lab.
• Environmental Justice | Community Commons
  Community Commons offers a compilation of resources and tools, including factsheets and educational videos, related to environmental justice.
• Tree Equity Career Pathways Action Guide | American Forests and Vibrant Cities Lab
  This guide provides a step-by-step approach to developing urban forestry and urban greening career pathways that prioritize equity.
• The dimensions of urban green equity: A framework for analysis | Nesbitt et al. 2018
  This academic article offers a framework for equity analysis related to urban greening.

Land Use in Inner Forests

• Know Your City | Slum/Shack Dwellers International (SDI)
  SDI supplies data related to informal settlements.
• Mapping Social Landscapes Guide | World Resources Institute, 2018
  This guidebook provides the methodology to conduct social network mapping in order understand stakeholders, specifically their priorities, values, and connections.
• Where to Plant and Why | Vibrant City Labs
  How can we prioritize urban forest plantings where the need is greatest? This guide outlines the necessary steps.
• Roadmap for Inclusive Planning | C40, 2019
  The C40 guide to putting people at the center of climate action.
• Handbook for Preparing a Resettlement Action Plan | International Financial Corporation (IFC), 2002
  This World Bank guide provides guidance on involuntary resettlement to improve the livelihoods of those involved and minimize adverse effects.

Affordability Considerations in Inner Forests

• Roadmap for Inclusive Planning | C40, 2019
  The C40 guide to putting people at the center of climate action.
• Investing in Equitable Urban Park Systems | Urban Institute, 2019
  This report highlights innovative case-studies around funding strategies and models that place equity and communities at the center of park investment decisions.
• Pathway to Parks & Affordable Housing Joint Development | LA THRIVES and Los Angeles Regional Open Space and Affordable Housing (LAROSAH), n.d.
  This publication provides a framework for addressing urban greening and sustainable housing simultaneously.

Accessibility and Safety Considerations in Inner Forests

• Best Management Practices for Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design in Natural Landscapes | Green City Partnerships, 2019
  Complete with abundant photos, this guide outlines best management practices to creating safe and inviting natural landscapes in urban parks.
• Building Safe and Inclusive Cities for Women: A Practical Guide | Jagori, 2011
  This guide offers practical tools and resources to help build safer and inclusive cities for women.
• Parks for Inclusion Resources | National Recreation and Parks Association (NRPA)
  These downloadable resources empower the user to design inclusive policies in parks and recreation agencies and programs and encourage their adoption by community and staff alike.
• Creating Safe Park Environments to Enhance Community Wellness | National Recreation and Parks Association (NRPA), n.d.
  This issue brief provides an overview of the findings of a taskforce on park safety by the National Recreation and Parks Association, including several illustrative case studies.

Ecotourism and Recreation in Forests

• How Ecotourism Affects Human Communities | Zacarius and Loyola, 2017
  This book chapter analyzes the role of ecotourism in empowering local people, discusses the economic benefits of ecotourism, and offers case studies of how ecotourism has been used.
• Guidelines for Community-based Ecotourism Development | World Wildlife Fund, 2001
  These guidelines offer practical considerations for expanding community-based tourism, based on the experiences of World Wildlife Fund projects throughout the world.
• Gender-Responsive Toolkit on Ecotourism Planning and Management | Philippine Commission on Women, n.d.
  This toolkit recommends strategies for ensuring that ecotourism planning and management respond to gender issues and achieve gender equality.
• A Toolkit for Monitoring and Managing Community-Based Tourism | SNV and University of Hawaii, 2007
  This toolkit provides step-by-step guidance for setting up a monitoring program for community-based tourism projects.
• Linking Communities, Tourism & Conservation: A Tourism Assessment Process | Conservation International, George Washington University, and The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), 2005
  This guidebook supports field practitioners interested in launching a tourism activity by first assessing a conservation location’s potential for tourism, the impacts to biodiversity, and the social, cultural, and resource challenges.

Community Forest Management in Faraway Forests

• Mapping Social Landscapes Guide | World Resources Institute, 2018
  This guidebook provides the methodology to conduct social network mapping in order understand stakeholders, specifically their priorities, values, and connections.
• Gender Analysis | European Institute for Gender Equality, n.d.
  This short guidance tool lays out the basic steps to conduct a gender analysis, and presents the best known gender analysis frameworks and additional resources.
• Gender Tool Box | Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2015
  This brief defines and explains the key principles and elements behind conducting a gender analysis.
• Gender Analysis Guidelines | Department on the Status of Women, City and County of San Fransisco, n.d.
  These guidelines describe clear steps for conducting a gender analysis, providing suggested questions to ask for each step.
• Meaningful Stakeholder Consultation | Inter-American Development Bank, 2017
  This publication provides the principles and methodology on meaningful stakeholder consultation, consistent with IDB’s environmental and social safeguard policies.
• Guidelines on Free, Prior and Informed Consent | The United Nations Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (UN REDD), 2013
  This guidance document provides a framework for projects to obtain free, prior and informed consent as part of their meaningful stakeholder engagement processes.
• Guidelines for a Gender Sensitive Participatory Approach | International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), 2009
  This short document provides basic guidelines on implementing a gender-sensitive participatory approach, including a description of relevant tools and resources, and a checklist of considerations.
• LandMark | World Resources Institute
  This online, interactive platform provides maps and other critical information on lands that are collectively held and used by Indigenous Peoples and local communities.
• Power and Potential: A Comparative Analysis of National Laws and Regulations Concerning Women’s Rights to Community Forests | Rights and Resources Initiative, 2017
  This report analyzes 30 low- and middle-income countries to understand how their national laws and regulations address women’s rights to community forests, with a special focus on indigenous and rural women.

Faraway Forest Protection and Use Policies

A variety of sources can be used to gather relevant social information. Examples include: LandMark, Rights and Resources Initiative, Demographic and Health Survey, Living Standards Measurement Study, Human Development Data, FAO Gender and Land-rights Database, relevant national, regional or local statistics or research institutions, expert interviews, and results from gender and social analyses.

Promoting Social Standards in Procurement

• Fairtrade Standards | Fairtrade International
  These standards outline recommendations and requirements for products to achieve the Fairtrade Standard label.
• Exploring Fair Trade Timber: A review of issues in current practice, institutional structures and ways forward | International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), 2006
  This report analyzes the progress and potential of fair trade timber, offering recommendations on how to ensure fair trade delivers social benefits to producer communities.
• Exploring gender and forest, tree and agroforestry value chains – Evidence and lessons from a systematic review | Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), 2016
  This systematic review explains the gender differences and inequalities in the value chains of forest, tree, and agroforestry products, analyzes the factors that influence these differences, and recommends interventions that can foster greater gender equity.