Evaluating the socio-environmental impacts of monoculture cashew expansion in the Northern Western Ghats, India

Abstract

Chapter 1: Cashew expansion in the tropics: a cause for 30 conservation concern? Chapter 2: State-led agricultural subsidies drive monoculture 101 cultivar cashew expansion in northern Western Ghats, India Chapter 3: Mapping cashew monocultures in the Western 159 Ghats using optical and radar imagery in Google Earth Engine Chapter 4: Bird species richness and abundances are 211 comparable across cashew plantations and forests and their relation to landscape features can be measured using acoustic indices Conclusion 271