Native land tenure, conservation, and development in a pseudo-democracy: Sabah, Malaysia

Doolittle, Amity A.

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“…21 It is a commonly held notion that land is productive only when occupied and improved (Cooke 2006). In some ways, the colonial belief that subsistence-based agriculture and shifting cultivation, as practiced by natives, are wasteful and that state intervention through the introduction of modern agricultural techniques and plantation agriculture is required, is still retained by the government (Doolittle 2004(Doolittle , 2007.…”

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Biofuels in Malaysia: An analysis of the legal and institutional framework

Chin¹

2011

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Section: Palm Oil Development and Poverty Alleviation Through Land Sementioning

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Biofuels in Malaysia: An analysis of the legal and institutional framework

Chin¹

2011

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“…Community members are often motivated for a variety of environmental purposes, which include improving the quality of soil and water, increasing the presence of wildlife, restoring forests, and improving the climate [19][20][21][22]. Tree planting or reforestation has also been documented as a strategy for securing land tenure in many cultural contexts [15][16][17][18]. Two studies respectively from Uruguay and Chile identified positive local attitudes towards establishment of tree plantations that made use of unproductive cattle ranches or contributed to biodiversity conservation [13,14].…”

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Does Tree Planting Change Minds? Assessing the Use of Community Participation in Reforestation to Address Illegal Logging in West Kalimantan

Pohnan¹,

Ompusunggu²,

Webb

2015

Tropical Conservation Science

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Gunung Palung National Park in West Kalimantan, Indonesia has been persistently threatened by illegal logging for the past several decades. Subsequent fires have led to the encroachment of noxious grasses such as Imperata cylindrica, which have arrested succession to secondary forest within and around the park. Since 2009, local NGO Alam Sehat Lestari (ASRI) has reforested 20 hectares of degraded Imperata grassland within the park, with the goal of restoring forest area and decreasing the incidence of illegal logging inside the park by providing jobs and income to local people. In February 2013, a survey was conducted to assess the social impacts of the reforestation program, and to test the hypothesis that participation in reforestation can reduce instances of illegal logging through two pathways: (1) economic improvement for participants; (2) altering perceptions towards illegal logging. Structured interviews were conducted with 50 local residents, one-third of which identified as former illegal loggers, to gauge their perceptions towards forest conservation and illegal logging. The survey found that 80% of respondents believed that the reforestation program helped to reduce illegal logging in the park. However, the pathways through which this change occurred were different from those hypothesized. There was little evidence supporting the "perceptions change" pathway, but greater evidence supporting the "economic improvement" pathway through the medium of skill-building rather than direct economic improvement. Approximately 50% of participants reported engaging in self-directed tree planting activities post-involvement. These results suggest that forest restoration can effectively be used as a community-engagement tool to address illegal logging.

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“…The intricate and often fraught relationships between politics and property in Sabah have been explored in detail by Doolittle (2001Doolittle ( , 2005Doolittle ( , 2007Doolittle ( , 2008. This body of work highlights the historical and continuing efforts by Federal and State Governments to promote and impose an agenda of economic and cultural transformation in rural Sabah; the negative environmental impacts of poorly planned and managed conservation policies, and agricultural and industrial activities; the importance of personal networks, influence, and leverage in local development trajectories; and 10 FPIC is 'free, prior, and informed consent', an important pillar of REDD+ modalities.…”

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“…Since 1968, however, there has been a Government-appointed committee for safety and village development, the Jawatan Kuasa Keselamatan dan Kenanjuan Kampong, which is often effectively a single person (known as the JKK), who receives a Government salary. The JKK's role is to represent the villagers' interests and opinions regarding development activities, but given the salaried nature of the position, the JKK is effectively a Government agent at the community level, whose interests may be more around representing the Government's agenda in the village than the community's interests to the Government (Doolittle 2007). The survey questionnaire was designed to explore probabilities based on the respondents' personal experiences and opinions of the development and implementation of natural resource management projects in their communities.…”

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Blue carbon: a study of the potential of coastal ecosystem resource management in global climate policy and carbon markets

Schierl¹

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Blue carbon refers to carbon stored or sequestered in marine and coastal ecosystems including mangrove forests, tidal salt marshes and seagrass meadows, as well as coral reefs and oceanic carbon sinks in the form of marine algae. These habitats provide important ecosystem services (spawning habitat, defence against storms, nutrient cycling, pollination) and economic resources (livelihoods, and provision of food, materials and medicines) yet are largely unregarded in international climate change mitigation and adaptation frameworks. While there is considerable enthusiasm in the scientific and policy communities over the potential of blue carbon finance to support sustainability initiatives and local development, efforts to enact blue carbon project activities are severely constrained by a range of economic and social factors. Advocates of blue carbon consistently fail to understand the importance of blue carbon as an economic commodity, focusing largely on scientific uncertainty and governance issues.In order to integrate blue carbon offset activities into global policy mechanisms, scientific methods are required to quantify the carbon storage and sequestration benefits of blue ecosystems. To facilitate the participation of communities in blue carbon project activities, critical and theoretical social science perspectives are needed to understand the constraints, opportunities, and drivers of engagement. Securing necessary financial resources and market engagement requires recognition of investment priorities and commercial imperatives. This study therefore requires the application of a transdisciplinary framework to explore the multi-dimensional nature of the emerging localinternational carbon value network. Integrating a number of journal articles as key chapters, the thesis first considers the broad political economy of carbon in global markets, and then investigates the blue carbon value chain (or network) as a case study. This value network extends from 'producers' to 'end users', and the thesis examines the roles of actors and stakeholders using the tools and theoretical perspectives of institutional and ecological economics, political ecology, systems dynamics, and development studies. Understanding the institutional systems in which ecosystem-based carbon offsets operate, and the motivations of and constraints on the actors in those systems, will help to identify policy interventions and reforms that will facilitate the development and implementation of blue carbon activities.The complex challenges of the 21 st Century imply that transition to a resilient and sustainable global society will require new understandings of wealth and economic value, and new approaches to environmental governance. Blue carbon can be considered a 'proxy' for a range of outcomesadaptation to climate change effects, support of food security and community development, and the building of social-ecological resilience in marine managed areas. As such, blue carbon is an ideal iv case study of the emerging models of local-to-...

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Native land tenure, conservation, and development in a pseudo-democracy: Sabah, Malaysia

Cited by 23 publications

References 8 publications

Biofuels in Malaysia: An analysis of the legal and institutional framework

Biofuels in Malaysia: An analysis of the legal and institutional framework

Does Tree Planting Change Minds? Assessing the Use of Community Participation in Reforestation to Address Illegal Logging in West Kalimantan

Blue carbon: a study of the potential of coastal ecosystem resource management in global climate policy and carbon markets

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