Roads, Population Pressures, and Deforestation in Thailand, 1976-1989

Cropper, Maureen; Griffiths, Charles L.; Mani, Muthukumara

doi:10.2307/3146993

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“…This is consistent with the findings in Cropper et al (1999), who report that a 10 % increase agricultural household density in North Thailand increases agricultural land by 4 %. However, it is higher than the elasticity of cleared land with respect to population reported in a spatially explicit study of the effects of population and transportation costs in Cropper et al (2001): In that study, a 10 % increase in population leads to a 1.5 % increase in cleared land in the forested areas of North Thailand.…”

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Using Mixed Methods to Assess Trade-Offs Between Agricultural Decisions and Deforestation

Puri

2017

Evaluating Climate Change Action for Sustainable Development

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Policies that target poverty reduction are often at odds with environmental sustainability. Assessing magnitudes of trade-offs between improved livelihoods on one side, and forest cover on the other, is important for designing win-win development policies that may help to mitigate climate change. I use a mix of panel data for 670 villages over a 10 year period, and combine it with historical land records and grey literature, to understand the drivers of deforestation within reserved forests of Thailand -an area where smallholder ethnic tribes are located. Given that reserved forests are the last bastions of forests in Thailand, examining what drives land clearing within these areas is important. I combine econometric findings with qualitative reports to infer that (i) it is important to measure the differential effects of policies on different crops, agricultural intensity and the agricultural frontier; and (ii) within forest reserves, policies that encourage cultivation overall may not be detrimental to forest cover after all. This has important implications for evaluators and policy makers.

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Section: Effect Of Populationsupporting

confidence: 82%

Using Mixed Methods to Assess Trade-Offs Between Agricultural Decisions and Deforestation

Puri

2017

Evaluating Climate Change Action for Sustainable Development

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“…To better understand the nature of protected areas' impacts on poverty, we next consider two covariates that are highly related to poverty and based on theory, are expected to moderate the impacts of protection: slope and distance to major cities. The primary driver of deforestation in Costa Rica and Thailand was agriculture (35)(36)(37). k Slope is highly correlated with agricultural potential: the steeper the slopes, then the less suitable the land is for agriculture.…”

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Conditions associated with protected area success in conservation and poverty reduction

Ferraro

Hanauer²,

Sims³

2011

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Protected areas are the dominant approach to protecting biodiversity and the supply of ecosystem services. Because these protected areas are often placed in regions with widespread poverty and because they can limit agricultural development and exploitation of natural resources, concerns have been raised about their potential to create or reinforce poverty traps. Previous studies suggest that the protected area systems in Costa Rica and Thailand, on average, reduced deforestation and alleviated poverty. We examine these results in more detail by characterizing the heterogeneity of responses to protection conditional on observable characteristics. We find no evidence that protected areas trap historically poorer areas in poverty. In fact, we find that poorer areas at baseline seem to have the greatest levels of poverty reduction as a result of protection. However, we do find that the spatial characteristics associated with the most poverty alleviation are not necessarily the characteristics associated with the most avoided deforestation. We show how an understanding of these spatially heterogeneous responses to protection can be used to generate suitability maps that identify locations in which both environmental and poverty alleviation goals are most likely to be achieved.

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“…1). This could be because sloped terrain is more difficult to clear, benefits obtained by clearing are lower 21 or the incentives to abandon cleared land are greater 22 . Topography has been shown to have important influences on tree cover at local or regional scales 19,20,23 , but the global generality of this remains untested.…”

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Human impacts drive a global topographic signature in tree cover

Sandel

Svenning

2013

Nat Commun

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The Anthropocene is a geological epoch marked by major human influences on processes in the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere and geosphere. One of the most dramatic features of the Anthropocene is the massive alteration of the Earth's vegetation, including forests. Here we investigate the role of topography in shaping human impacts on tree cover from local to global scales. We show that human impacts have resulted in a global tendency for tree cover to be constrained to sloped terrain and losses to be concentrated on flat terrain. This effect increases in strength with increasing human pressure and is most pronounced in countries with rapidly growing economies, limited human population stress and highly effective governments. These patterns likely reflect the relative inaccessibility of sloped topography and have important implications for conservation and modelling of future tree cover.

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Roads, Population Pressures, and Deforestation in Thailand, 1976-1989

Cited by 137 publications

References 2 publications

Using Mixed Methods to Assess Trade-Offs Between Agricultural Decisions and Deforestation

Using Mixed Methods to Assess Trade-Offs Between Agricultural Decisions and Deforestation

Conditions associated with protected area success in conservation and poverty reduction

Human impacts drive a global topographic signature in tree cover

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