Effects of protected area establishment and cash crop price dynamics on land use transitions 1990–2017 in north-eastern Madagascar
| Autor: | Paul C. Harimalala, Andreas Heinimann, Roger Bär, Zo H. Rabemananjara, Julie G. Zaehringer, Jorge C. Llopis |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Land use Agroforestry Cash crop Geography Planning and Development 0211 other engineering and technologies Biodiversity 021107 urban & regional planning 02 engineering and technology 910 Geography & travel Management Monitoring Policy and Law 01 natural sciences Shifting cultivation Geography Deforestation Satellite imagery Land use land-use change and forestry Protected area 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Earth-Surface Processes |
| Zdroj: | Llopis, Jorge C.; Harimalala, Paul C.; Bär, Roger; Heinimann, Andreas; Rabemananjara, Zo Hasina; Zähringer, Julie Gwendolin (2019). Effects of protected area establishment and cash crop price dynamics on land use transitions 1990–2017 in north-eastern Madagascar. Journal of land use science, 14(1), pp. 52-80. Taylor & Francis 10.1080/1747423X.2019.1625979 |
| DOI: | 10.7892/boris.131476 |
| Popis: | We applied a participatory mapping approach supported by very high-resolution satellite imagery to reconstruct spatially explicit, year-to-year land use transitions in two highly biodiverse, data-scarce forest frontier landscapes in north-eastern Madagascar. We explored these transitions in the light of major continuous trends and discrete events highlighted by local farmers as influencing their land use decisions. Our results suggest that the process of establishing protected areas first reinforced ongoing deforestation, but later led to a significant reduction of forest loss rates. Recent cash crop booms appear to have induced agricultural intensification processes in our study landscapes, while also putting additional pressure on forests, as people may be encouraged to clear forest for cash crop cultivation. These findings are crucial to understanding rapid land use change processes in forest frontier contexts in the humid tropics, and especially to informing natural resource governance and development initiatives in complex mosaic landscapes. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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