Migration, assets, and forest degradation in a tropical deciduous forest of South Asia

Baquié, Sandra; Urpelainen, Johannes; Khanwilkar, Sarika; Galletti, Christopher S.; Velho, Nandini; Mondal, Pinki; Nagendra, Harini; DeFries, Ruth

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106887

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“…Forests can serve as social safety nets, supporting livelihood security ( Delacote, 2007 ; Paumgarten, 2005 ; Rasmussen et al, 2017 ; Shackleton and Shackleton, 2004 ). However, there is significant uncertainty in terms of the nature of migration (temporary vs permanent) ( Awasthi and Mehta, 2020 , Shweta, 2021 ), the role of forests as a safety net ( Basu, 2020 ) and the subsequent impact on forest ( Baquié et al, 2021 ) due to shifts in rural demography. UN studies from Asia and African countries found while there were initial reports of increase in illegal logging and poaching, within the sector, activities like plantation, reforestation and forestation slowed down resulting in loss of jobs for rural forest dependent communities ( Giri, 2020 ; Attah, 2021 ).…”

Section: Covid-19 Forests and A “Green” Recoverymentioning

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“…The COVID-19 pandemic and its after-effects are likely to exacerbate existing pressures on forests, in some cases resulting in further degradation ( Baquié et al, 2021 ). Research is urgently needed to understand the immediate and long-term implications for forest-based livelihoods and other environmental objectives.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…While the short-term impacts of population increase due to return migration may largely be reflected in an increase in household subsistence needs, if migrants stay in rural areas, this process stands to change livelihood patterns over the long-term, impacting forests. A recent study on migration in central India ( Baquié et al, 2021 ) found that there is no significant impact of short term migration on rates of forest degradation, while pointing out that observations over longer-term time-frames might be necessary to better capture these effects. Although rural growth patterns have led to a decline in subsistence activities in many countries in recent years, the presence of returned migrants and their desire to stay back and re-engage in agriculture allied activities will lead to reinvestment in farm-based production activities (Awasthi and Mehta 2020), potentially driving additional forest clearing for agriculture while also increasing farm households' dependence on agriculture-supporting ecosystem services ( Shweta, 2021 ).…”

Section: Research Priorities On Forests and The Covid-19 Pandemicmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…International Migrant Stocks: The increase of international refugees in many parts of the globalized world puts a burden on economic and natural resource markets that exhausts enormous rates. The pragmatic policies and intelligent decisions for managing international refugees would be helpful to restore natural resource capital for attaining sustainable development [47]. iv.…”

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Management of natural resources is pivotal for sustained economic growth—the increasing ecological footprints causing biocapacity deficit threaten the resource conversation agenda. The study identified the potential causes and consequences of natural resource depletion in a broad cross-section of 138 countries. Ecological footprints, international migrant stocks, industrial value-added, and population growth influenced natural resource capital across countries. The results show that ecological footprints, industrial value-added, and population growth are the detrimental factors of resource capital. In contrast, continued economic growth is helpful to conserve natural resources for future generations. The rise and fall in the natural resource degradation are evident in the wake of international migrants’ stocks to support an inverted U-shaped relationship between them. The Granger causality inferences confirmed the one-way linkages, running from international migrant stocks, economic growth, and population growth to natural resource degradation. It verifies migrants-led, affluence-led, and population-led resource degradation. Ecological footprints Granger causes industrial value-added across countries. The forecasting estimates suggested that economic growth would likely to influenced greater in magnitude to resource degradation by its innovation shocks of 4.791%, followed by international migrant stocks, population growth, ecological footprints, and industrial value added by their innovation shocks of 4.709%, 1.829%, 1.247%, and 0.700%, respectively. The study concludes that international migrant stocks should manage smartly, causing more resource degradation via a channel of increasing biocapacity deficit across countries.

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“…With the migration of the population to the city, the demand for living land is becoming more urgent (Baquié et al, 2021; Liu et al, 2021; Ma et al, 2021). Meanwhile, due to the desertification year by year, the land for the actual construction has been reduced rapidly (Amezketa, 2006; Barbero et al, 2015; Su et al, 2004).…”

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In recent years, microbial mineralization has aroused great attention in soil remediation. The pH is one of the critical factors that control the microbial mineralization process. However, the interaction mechanism between the environment pH and the mineralization process has not been clarified yet. This paper focused on the growth of bacteria, urease activity and the calcium utilization rate. Besides, we detected the particle size distribution, morphological characteristics and the composition of precipitations formed at different pH. Moreover, we evaluated the triaxial compressive strength of sand columns processed by different pH consolidation solutions. Additionally, the volume fraction of precipitations and its spatial distribution in sand columns were analysed by X‐ray CT. The results demonstrated that pH significantly influences the growth of bacteria and urease activity, especially in the bacteria's early growth stage. This paper also indicates that the environmental pH impacts the volume fraction of precipitations, affecting the consolidation properties. We also found a negative correlation between the cohesion and the total volume fraction of precipitations. In contrast, there was a positive correlation between the friction angle and the total volume fraction of precipitations. Moreover, we observed that the precipitations mainly distributed in the pores and throats, increasing the sand particles’ roughness. Furthermore, we proposed four cementing models for the spatial relationship between the precipitations and the sand particles, which provides new insight into the consolidation mechanism. This paper guides us to promote this environmentally friendly technology to treat soil liquefaction and desertification.

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Migration, assets, and forest degradation in a tropical deciduous forest of South Asia

Cited by 7 publications

References 18 publications

Forest livelihoods and a “green recovery” from the COVID-19 pandemic: Insights and emerging research priorities from India

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Managing Natural Resources through Sustainable Environmental Actions: A Cross-Sectional Study of 138 Countries

Insight into the influence of pH on the precipitation induced by bacteria

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