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Beyond deforestation reductions: public disclosure, land-use change and commodity sourcing
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development
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Beyond Deforestation Reductions: Public Disclosure, Land-Use Change and Commodity Sourcing
In: World Development, Band 175
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Losing Territory: The Effect of Administrative Splits on Land Use in the Tropics
In: Asian Development Bank Economics Working Paper Series No. 708
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Palm Oil and the Politics of Deforestation in Indonesia
In: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Band 108, Heft 102453
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Mind your language: Political signaling and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
In: ZEF – Discussion Papers on Development Policy No. 326, Center for Development Research, Bonn, March 2023, pp. 34.
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Building Adaptive Capacity in Changing Social-Ecological Systems: Integrating Knowledge in Communal Land-Use Planning in the Peruvian Amazon
Building resilient sustainable social-ecological systems (SES) requires communities to enhance their adaptive capacities. Communal participative land-use planning (Zonificación Participativa Comunal—ZPC) is a tool designed for communities to integrating local and scientific knowledge to sustainably organize and manage their SES. Between 2006 and 2011, a ZPC was developed with communities in the buffer zone of Cordillera Azul National Park (Peru), where rapid demographic changes are converting pre-montane seasonally dry forest into agricultural land. Herein, we analyse how the ZPC enhanced adaptive capacity, enabling the SES to cope with environmental, political and economic changes. Based on qualitative, semi-structured interviews, communities are analysed along their capacities in the dimensions social capital, learning, adaptive management and governance. An analysis of yearly high-resolution forest cover data supports our findings. Deforestation activities in biologically sensitive zones decreased rapidly during the time of the ZPC implementation. We find that particularly the long-term presence of the bridging institution and the continuous testing and reflection of the integrated "hybrid knowledge" enabled communities to develop adaptive capacities. The analysis of ZPC our results reveals the enabling conditions for promoting the learning process to develop a sustainable land-use management in the context of migration and rapid changes. ; Open-Access-Publikationsfonds 2018 ; peerReviewed
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