Gis Application To Identify Payment For Forest Environment Service Case Study In Dak Nong Hydropower Plant Dak Nong Province

MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT

VIETNAM FORESTRY UNIVERSITY

STUDENT THESIS

GIS APPLICATION TO IDENTIFY PAYMENT FOR FOREST

ENVIRONMENT SERVICE: CASE STUDY IN DAK NONG

HYDROPOWER PLANT, DAK NONG PROVINCE

Major: Natural Resources Management (Advanced Curriculum)

Code: D850101

Faculty: Forest Resources and Environmental Management

Student: Le Chi Dung Student ID : 1053091724

Class: K55 Natural Resources Management Course: 2010 – 2014

Advanced Education Program

Developed in collaboration with Colorado State University, USA

Supervisor : Asso. Prof. Tran Quang Bao, Ph.D

Hanoi, November 2014

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Thesis “Gis application to identify payment for forest environment service: case

study in Dak Nong hydropower plant, Dak Nong province” was completed under the

advanced training program, collaboration between Vietnam Forestry University and

Colorado State University, USA.

Foremost, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my supervisor, Assoc. Prof.

Tran Quang Bao for his patience, motivation, enthusiasm, and immense knowledge. His

guidance helped me in all the time of research and writing of this thesis.

Besides my supervisor, I would like to thank the rest of my thesis committee: Prof

Lee H. MacDonald, MSc. Pham Van Duan, MSc. Le Sy Doanh, and MSc. Nguyen Viet

Hung for their encouragement, insightful comments, and hard questions.

A special thanks to my family. Words cannot express how grateful I am to my

parents, and my sister for all of the sacrifices that you’ve made on my behalf. I would also

like to thank all of my friends who supporting and encouraging me in process of thesis

completion.

Because of limited proficiency in many aspects, this thesis cannot be avoided certain

shortcomings. I am very happy to receive any comments.

I sincerely thank you! Hanoi, November 2014

Student

Le Chi Dung

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.....................................................................................................1

I. INTRODUCTION..........................................................................................................1

II. OBJECTIVES.............................................................................................................3

III. METHODOLOGY .....................................................................................................4

3.1 Data source .................................................................................................................4

3.2 Method of defining watershed boundaries for DAK NONG hydropower plant ........4

3.3 Method of mapping K coefficient....................................................................................5

3.3.1 Method of mapping K1 coefficient based on forest status ...........................................6

3.3.2 Method of mapping K2 coefficient based on forest type..............................................6

3.3.3 Method of mapping K3 coefficient according to forest’s formative origin..................7

3.3.4 Method of mapping K4 coefficient based on the difficulty level of forest protection. 7

3.3.5 Method of mapping of the synthetic K coefficient.......................................................8

3.4 Method of determining of the amount of money paid for forest environmental services

for forest owners in the basin.................................................................................................8

IV. RESULTS .................................................................................................................10

4.1 Dak Nong hydropower watershed boundaries...............................................................10

4.2. K coefficient map..........................................................................................................11

4.2.1. K1 coefficient map based on forest status .................................................................11

4.2.2. K2 Coefficient Map based on forest types.................................................................13

4.2.3. K3 coefficient map according to the forest’s formative origin..................................15

4.2.4 Map of K4 coefficient based on the difficulty levels of forest protection. ..................16

4.3. Map of synthetic K coefficient .....................................................................................28

4.4. Applications of K coefficient map to determine amount of money paid for PFES for

forest owners in the basin. ...................................................................................................29

V. DISCUSSION...............................................................................................................32

VI. CONCLUSIONS ......................................................................................................34

REFERENCES

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

PFES Payment for forest environment service

FES Forest environment service

DEM Digital elevation model

VND Vietnam Dong

PFF Provincial forest protection and development fund

MARD Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development

IFEE Institute for Forest Ecology and Environment