Influence of land tenure interventions on human well-being and environmental outcomes

Tseng, Tzu Wei Joy; Robinson, Brian E.; Bellemare, Marc F.; BenYishay, Ariel; Blackman, Allen; Boucher, Timothy M.; Childress, Malcolm D.; Holland, Margaret B.; Kroeger, Timm; Linkow, Benjamin; Diop, Moustapha; Naughton, Lisa; Rudel, Thomas K.; Sanjak, Jolyne; Shyamsundar, Priya; Veit, Peter; Sunderlin, W.D.; Zhang, Wei; Masuda, Yuta J.

doi:10.1038/s41893-020-00648-5

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“…Participants are from rural villages in Berau, Indonesia, and as a result, are acclimated to working in local environments. Berau is also emblematic of tropical forest conditions in other countries experiencing land-use pressures from the expansion of agriculture, oil palm, mining, and other activities 58 , with factors such as tenure security shaping the incentives around land use 59,60 . As a result, our results may provide insights into how heat from deforestation is affecting worker productivity of similar populations, of which there is an estimated 800 million people live in or near tropical forests 61 .…”

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Warming from tropical deforestation reduces worker productivity in rural communities

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The accelerating loss of tropical forests in the 21st century has eliminated cooling services provided by trees in low latitude countries. Cooling services can protect rural communities and outdoor workers with little adaptive capacity from adverse heat exposure, which is expected to increase with climate change. Yet little is still known about whether cooling services can mitigate negative impacts of heat on labor productivity among rural outdoor workers. Through a field experiment in Indonesia, we show that worker productivity was 8.22% lower in deforested relative to forested settings, where wet bulb globe temperatures were, on average, 2.84 °C higher in deforested settings. We demonstrate that productivity losses are driven by behavioral adaptations in the form of increased number of work breaks, and provide evidence that suggests breaks are in part driven by awareness of heat effects on work. Our results indicate that the cooling services from forests have the potential for increasing resilience and adaptive capacity to local warming.

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“…Demand is also surging where communities find they are unable to withstand state-supported allocation of their forests for large-scale oil palm plantations and mining in particular, such as documented by The World Bank in Zambia (Ali et al 2019) and by Chase Smith (2020) for Peru. Scientific studies add force to the growing preference for tenure-based approaches to limit encroachment, fires, and logging, while also securing livelihood support for communities (Levy-Tacher et al 2019;Oldekop et al 2019;Tseng et al 2021). Research on the expansion of mining and its impacts upon forests and biodiversity calls for community land ownership as a means to help contain losses (Meijaard et al 2020;Vallejos et al 2020).…”

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Challenging the State: Devolutionary Tenure Transitions for Saving and Expanding Forests

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2021

Hum Ecol

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I address a contentious element in forest property relations to illustrate the role of ownership in protecting and expanding of forest cover by examining the extent to which rural communities may legally own forests. The premise is that whilst state-owned protected areas have contributed enormously to forest survival, this has been insufficiently successful to justify the mass dispossession of customary land-owning communities this has entailed. Further, I argue that state co-option of community lands is unwarranted. Rural communities on all continents ably demonstrate the will and capacity to conserve forests – provided their customary ownership is legally recognized. I explore the property rights reforms now enabling this. The replication potential of community protected forestlands is great enough to deserve flagship status in global commitments to expand forest including in the upcoming new Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

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“…It is well known that secure tenure alone is not enough to guarantee environmental conservation [8,44]. In the case of deforestation, for example, the empirical link between tenure systems and forest conditions is not univocal [45,46]. Furthermore, private property and state property very often exclude local communities.…”

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Codifying and Commodifying Nature: Narratives on Forest Property Rights and the Implementation of Tenure Regularization Policies in Northwestern Argentina

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Environmental resource management requires negotiation among state and non-state actors with conflicting goals and different levels of influence. In northwestern Argentina, forest policy implementation is described as weak, due to governance structure and ambiguities in the law. We studied how policy actors’ attitudes and their positions in the forest governance network relate to the implementation of land tenure regularization in a context where land tenure regularization is at the core of struggles over environmental policies. We focused on the Chaco Salteño part of the Gran Chaco ecosystem, one of the world’s major deforestation frontiers. We argue that the presence of weak advocacy coalitions requires an analysis of agency to understand this policy process. Our policy network analysis revealed a lack of clear contrasting factions, due to a core–periphery structure. The core of the network brings together all core beliefs but not all of the most influential actors. Assessing network centrality and reputational influence enabled us to identify actors with exceptional agency. We contribute to the debates on advocacy coalitions and on land tenure by distinguishing between attitudes toward tenure regularization policies and their actual implementation in a context where actors have diverging interests and objectives.

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Influence of land tenure interventions on human well-being and environmental outcomes

Cited by 77 publications

References 41 publications

Warming from tropical deforestation reduces worker productivity in rural communities

Warming from tropical deforestation reduces worker productivity in rural communities

Challenging the State: Devolutionary Tenure Transitions for Saving and Expanding Forests

Codifying and Commodifying Nature: Narratives on Forest Property Rights and the Implementation of Tenure Regularization Policies in Northwestern Argentina

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