Re-thinking erosion on Java.

Diemont, W.H.; Smiet, A. C.; Nurdin, Naufal Muharam

doi:10.18174/njas.v39i4.16532

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“…The effectiveness of the upland conservation efforts has repeatedly been questioned. Their failure to markedly reduce downstream sediment yields (Diemont et al., 1991; Purwanto, 1999; Schweithelm, 1988) has been attributed to procedural shortcomings in project implementation (ADB, 2006), site-insensitive one-type-fits-all upland agricultural packages (Purwanto, 1999; USAID, 1985), failure to raise farmers’ awareness for erosion (ADB, 1996) and national policies encouraging cassava cultivation (Huszar and Cochrane, 1990; USAID, 1984).…”

Section: Scalar Politics Of Environmental Management In Javamentioning

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Scalar fixes of environmental management in Java, Indonesia

Lukas

Flitner

2019

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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This paper analyses the emergence and fixing of scales in struggles over environmental issues. Using the example of watershed and coastal management in Java, we show how political framings of environmental matters and struggles over resources are linked to scalar regimes. We conceptualise these regimes as scalar fixes in which scales of intervention and scales of knowledge production are bound by environmental narratives and social–ecological processes to produce lock-in effects for prolonged periods of time. In our empirical case, particular scales were central in providing ‘problem closure’ and legitimising interventions while precluding other problematisations. Sedimentation of the Segara Anakan lagoon, first desired to support conversion into a rice bowl, was later framed as threat caused by upland peasants. The lock-in of interpretive framings and scales of observation and intervention, which was linked to politics of forest control, impeded debate on the various causes of sedimentation. With our newly defined concept of scalar fixes we contribute to understanding environmental narratives and related knowledge, providing a complement to the micro-perspectives on the stabilisation of knowledge claims currently discussed in cultural and political ecology. In doing so, we offer an approach to scalar analysis of environmental conflicts linking environmental narratives with the material social–ecological processes enrolled.

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Section: Scalar Politics Of Environmental Management In Javamentioning

confidence: 99%

Scalar fixes of environmental management in Java, Indonesia

Lukas

Flitner

2019

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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“…Kalau pada tabun 1880 areal pertanian seluas 3 juta hektar, maka pada tabun 1980 areal tersebut telab meningkat hampir tiga kali lipat. Selanjutnya, pada periode yang sama luas hutan berkurang hampir tiga kali lipat (Diemont, et al, 1990).…”

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Hubungan Konservasi Tanah dan Air Dengan Komoditas yang Diusahakan, Struktur Pendapatan Serta Karakteristik Rumah Tangga (Kasus DAS Cimanuk dan Citanduy)

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Syafa'at

2016

JAE

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Sustainable agricultural development cannot be separated from the issue of soil erosion. This research shows that soil erosion is associated with sources of income of the households in the area, commodities being cultivated and demographic characteristics of the household. The higher the proportion of household income from agricultural activities, particularly dryland farming, the higher the erosion in the area. In general, this research suggests that an integrated and comprehensive policy on both commodity and natural resource management and agricultural and non-agriculturll,! sectors development is required to solve soil and water conservation problems.

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“…Moreover, part of the soil loss and sediment transport typically attributed to agricultural activities cannot, in Lindert's view, be rigorously traced back to human interventions. For Java also, in a study approvingly cited by Lindert (2000), Diemont, Smiet and Nurdin (1991) question the sources of observed sediment loading in rivers, arguing from field evidence that these are in large part attributable to factors other than agriculture, especially as in their estimate more than 75 per cent of Java's uplands (lands with slope of more than 30 per cent) are terraced (Diemont et al 1991: 218) 6…”

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Development and the Environment in Asia

Coxhead¹

2003

Asian-Pac Economic Lit

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Economic growth and environmental damage are associated, but the relationship is neither linear nor even monotonic. This is clearly seen in the diverse experiences of tropical Asian economies over recent decades. The nature of the growth–environment link depends on the changing composition of production and on growth‐related changes in techniques and environmental policies; the enforcement of property rights over natural resources and over air and water quality is another important element. Moreover, environmental and economic policies interact: in effect, every economic policy that affects resource allocation is a de facto environmental measure. One important implication is that the environmental consequences of major policy shifts, such as the ‘globalisation’ of many tropical Asian economies since about 1980, have been profound. The analytical literature on growth and the environment in Asia tends to agree that environmental damage is costly to regional economies, and has begun to identify and quantify some of the many causal linkages now recognised between economic development and the valuation and use of environmental and natural resource assets.

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Re-thinking erosion on Java.

Cited by 22 publications

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Scalar fixes of environmental management in Java, Indonesia

Scalar fixes of environmental management in Java, Indonesia

Hubungan Konservasi Tanah dan Air Dengan Komoditas yang Diusahakan, Struktur Pendapatan Serta Karakteristik Rumah Tangga (Kasus DAS Cimanuk dan Citanduy)

Development and the Environment in Asia

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