Livelihood activities and land-use at a riparian frontier of the Brazilian Amazon: quantitative characterization and qualitative insights into the influence of knowledge, values, and beliefs

Oestreicher, Jordan Sky; Farella, N.; Paquet, Serge; Davidson, Robert; Lucotte, Marc; Mertens, Frédéric

doi:10.1007/s10745-014-9667-3

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“…This condition is similar to the local community in lower Tapajos River region in Brazil as they also intensively utilize riparian forest. Some areas are also suitable for the expansion of livestock and crops by the community (Oestreicher et al 2014). …”

Section: Mapping Process and Integrating The Tpm Into Sprmentioning

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Integrating participatory GIS into spatial planning regulation: the case of Merauke District, Papua, Indonesia

Sulistyawan

Verweij

Boot

et al. 2018

International Journal of the Commons

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In many cases, government institutions insufficiently consider the traditional land use of community areas in spatial planning policy. Although numerous investigations into the participatory mapping of community lands have occurred, their results have not been adequately incorporated into the policy realm. In Indonesia, Spatial Planning Regulation (SPR), or locally known as Rencana Tata Ruang Wilayah (RTRW) is an instrument to guide land use practices in the categories of development and protected areas. Using a case study for the Merauke district in Papua province in Indonesia, we demonstrate how participatory mapping results of important community areas were integrated into district-level spatial planning through Participatory GIS (PGIS). There are three phases to the process of integrating PGIS into Spatial Planning Regulation. The first phase is to develop a shared vision between the customary communities and the district government and gain a commitment from both parties to use the results in further planning processes. The second phase is to facilitate the PGIS process, which is conducted by the community and a facilitator -in this case a team of WWF Indonesia Sahul Papua Region Office -, and the final phase is to integrate the PGIS results of the important community areas into spatial planning regulation. The results of our case study showed that of the total area adopted by the RTRW, about 69% were important community areas designated as cultural preservation areas. The remaining important community areas were allocated to two other land use categories: protected areas (22%) and development areas (9%). In this case, 91% of the community areas (647,850 hectares) were secured from other land use purposes such as large-scale agriculture, mining, forestry, and infrastructure. The PGIS approach can be applied to districts across Indonesia for mapping community land use practices and integrating them into Spatial Planning Regulation.

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Section: Mapping Process and Integrating The Tpm Into Sprmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating participatory GIS into spatial planning regulation: the case of Merauke District, Papua, Indonesia

Sulistyawan

Verweij

Boot

et al. 2018

International Journal of the Commons

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“…The approach discussed is useful to assess CES in indigenous communities for six main reasons: (i) the combination of methods provides land use data that enable CES studies to be holistically traced to a more data-efficient and land user friendly approach (Oestreicher et al 2014); (ii) the mapping process generates conversations between stakeholders, which ultimately can have a community empowerment effect (Ramírez-Gómez et al 2013Hirons et al 2016). For example in La Pedrera, the participants discussed what was being mapped, access to natural resources, and locations, and therefore, gained more awareness about their shared values through the conversations that took place during the meetings; (iii) the participatory approach helps to legitimate traditional knowledge within a scientific and policy driven framework (Gómez-Baggethun et al 2013;Brown & Donavan, 2014;Cummings and Read 2016); (iv) the combination of multivariate methods supports the quantification of CES (Plieninger et al 2013;Oestricher et al, 2014;Hirons et al 2016).…”

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“…They also show the importance of identifying in which ecological features are associated with the cultural heritage values of stakeholders in a given cultural context and how changes in these features could affect those values. For example, Oestreicher et al (2014) discuss a study of livelihood activities and land-use practices of the communities located in the Brazilian Amazon, highlighting the need to integrate both qualitative and quantitative assessments, as the most effective way of gaining a reliable perspective on the effect that changes in the ES might have on the communities dependent on them. The quantitative data provide empirical evidence on the wide range of activities in which the communities engage, whilst the qualitative data help to identify the underlying reasons for the differences between the communities participating in the study, demonstrating the plurality of forces that shape household decisions (e.g.…”

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Assessing and mapping cultural ecosystem services at community level in the Colombian Amazon

Angarita-Baéz

Pérez-Miñana

Vargas

et al. 2017

International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Servic

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Understanding the significance that cultural ecosystem services (CES) have for traditional communities will provide useful input to the design of more appropriate regional or territorial plans for the area in which they are located. We conducted semi-structured surveys in 11 indigenous communities within the corregimiento La Pedrera, of the Colombian Amazon. We analysed the CES established in the region through a study of their preferences in relation to the service providing units (SPUs) identified, using the Shannon diversity index method as an indicator of 'diversity of use'. More CES were identified in communities with a larger population; education and recreation were the two most prevalent CES categories in the study area. Our findings also highlight the cultural importance of bodies of water, which were strongly linked with Spiritual and Sense of Place CES. Furthermore, the integration of qualitative and quantitative assessments enables a better understanding of the importance CES which have for the local communities involved in the study and may assist in the management of the indigenous territory.ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…This is related to a lack of attention to the realities of research subjects -neglecting and obscuring socio-cultural and historical dimensions of land use and livelihoods (e.g. De Haan and Zoomers 2003;Kaag 2004;Small 2007;Prowse 2010;Jakimow 2012;Carr 2013;Oestreicher et al 2014).…”

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Amazonian peasant livelihood differentiation as mutuality-market dialectics

Fraser¹,

Cardoso

Steward

et al. 2017

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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Economistic approaches to the study of peasant livelihoods have considerable academic and policy influence, yet, we argue, perpetuate a partial misunderstanding -often reducing peasant livelihood to the management of capital assets by rational actors. In this paper, we propose to revitalize the original heterodox spirit of the sustainable livelihoods framework by drawing on Stephen Gudeman's work on the dialectic between use values and mutuality on the one hand, and exchange values and the market on the other. We use this approach to examine how historically divergent mutuality-market dialectics in different Amazonian regions have shaped greater prominence of either extractivism or agriculture in current livelihoods. We conclude that an approach centered on the mutuality-market dialectic is of considerable utility in revealing the role of economic histories in shaping differential peasant livelihoods in tropical forests. More generally, it has considerable potential to contribute to a much-needed re-pluralization of approaches to livelihood in academia and policy.

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Livelihood activities and land-use at a riparian frontier of the Brazilian Amazon: quantitative characterization and qualitative insights into the influence of knowledge, values, and beliefs

Cited by 28 publications

References 100 publications

Integrating participatory GIS into spatial planning regulation: the case of Merauke District, Papua, Indonesia

Integrating participatory GIS into spatial planning regulation: the case of Merauke District, Papua, Indonesia

Assessing and mapping cultural ecosystem services at community level in the Colombian Amazon

Amazonian peasant livelihood differentiation as mutuality-market dialectics

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