Transforming river basins: Post-livelihood transition agricultural landscapes and implications for natural resource governance

Sreeja, KG; Madhusoodhanan, C.G.; Eldho, T. I.

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2015.05.021

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“…Third, research on livelihood transformations in periurban areas needs a more solid theoretical basis. New perspectives within political ecology [105], approaches like the livelihood landscape [106] or a spatial perspective on changing access [107] is needed to address issues like changes of power relations, interactions, conflicts and relationships of residents with new population groups and changing gender relations.…”

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Periurban Transformations in the Global South and Their Impact on Water-Based Livelihoods

Butsch

Heinkel

2020

Water

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Urban sprawl and population increase are fundamentally transforming periurban areas in the Global South. These areas often suffer from inadequate environmental planning, resulting in water sources being overexploited, degraded, and redistributed. These processes affect water-based livelihoods due to disadvantages in water access and inadequate water governance. On the positive side, these transformation processes are leading to alternative water-based livelihoods. We systematically review and critically comment on the literature on water-based livelihoods in periurban areas of the Global South to provide the current scientific knowledge on this topic. Transformations of water-based livelihoods in periurban areas were also evaluated in terms of their sustainability. We conclude that rapid developments of periurban areas contain threats and potentials for water-based livelihoods and some emerging water-based livelihoods, whereas some emerging water-based livelihoods provide interim solutions for institutional supply gaps. Major lacunae in research are the (1) lack of holistic approaches, which address social dimensions of transformations, (2) the lack of studies applying a differentiated perspective on neighbouring areas within the urban fringe and (3) a lack of knowledge on emerging (water-based) livelihoods.

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Periurban Transformations in the Global South and Their Impact on Water-Based Livelihoods

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Heinkel

2020

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“…The shift in livelihoods, away from subsistence and toward market-oriented practices, often results in mixed subsistence and market-oriented practices, but the market-oriented approaches ultimately can altogether replace long-standing traditional land and natural resource management practices. Changes to livelihoods generally involve declines and losses of traditional knowledge and practices as people increasingly rely on broader regional-to-global markets (Butler et al, 2014;Sreeja, Madhusoodhanan, & Eldho, 2015). For example, a shift away from traditional livelihoods can involve an increase in wage-earning and market-oriented activities, further resulting in declining subsistence activities and, ultimately, the loss of associated knowledge (Hecht, 2010).…”

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Rethinking Landscape Conservation: Linking Globalized Agriculture to Changes to Indigenous Community-Managed Landscapes

Lawrence

Stedman

Morreale

et al. 2019

Tropical Conservation Science

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Community-managed landscapes have valuable conservation potential. In particular, indigenous community management has slowed deforestation. However, globalized agriculture is an underlying driver of changes to indigenous community-managed landscapes. Our objective is to explain a hypothesized global-to-local causal pathway that stems from processes of globalized agriculture and changes to indigenous community-managed landscapes. The global-to-local pathway involves a nested hierarchy of political–economic processes, specifically land and natural resource privatization, commodification, and acquisition. At the local landscape level, we focus on changes to land tenure, livelihoods, land use, and land cover. Changes to land tenure involve a shift away from community and toward individual ownership and management. Concurrently, livelihoods shift away from subsistence and toward market-oriented activities. Subsequently, land use shifts away from small-scale extensive and toward large-scale intensive crop cultivation, away from diverse crop cultivation and toward monocropping, and away from crop toward livestock farming. Ultimately, land cover shifts away from diverse agro-forested and toward homogeneous deforested lands. We illustrate our approach using ejidos, a type of community-managed lands, in Yucatán, México as an exploratory example. We use descriptive statistics to initially assess the shift in ejido land tenure, from community to individually parcelized systems, and the shift in a principal subsistence livelihood and land use activity, from maize cultivation to cattle rearing. We highlight that individually parceled areas within ejidos are more deforested than community-managed areas. In all, we urge landscape conservation scientists to more fully consider not just local actions but also impacts stemming from globalized agriculture and to advance the breadth and depth of more extensive studies and analyses.

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“…These China-NIAHS sites are regarded as "digital nomad-friendly" destinations, offering ideal conditions for both living and working. However, in recent decades, both global and China's agricultural heritage systems have undergone a profound transition marked by agricultural abandonment, unsustainable local livelihoods, and degraded landscape values [13][14][15][16][17]. The sustainability of these systems is being challenged by intense human activities and socio-economic changes, particularly hyper urbanization, extensive urban expansion, and the demographic shift from rural to urban areas [18][19][20].…”

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Opportunities for China’s Agricultural Heritage Systems under the “Digital Nomadism” Trend—A Stakeholder-Weighted Approach

Zhang,

Yu,

Liu

et al. 2024

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Agricultural heritage systems are appreciated worldwide for their significant environmental and cultural values. However, the sustainability of these systems has been compromised by environmental issues due to intensive human activities and socio-economic changes. Research has noticed that “digital nomadism” is providing a new opportunity for the sustainable development and transformation of these systems, regarded as “digital nomad-friendly” destinations. Nevertheless, comprehensive research on this new trend has been limited except for a few individual case studies. This study is the first to investigate the sustainable development of agricultural heritages considering the growing phenomenon of digital nomadism on a large scale. Based on in-depth stakeholder interviews, we introduced the Digital Nomad-Friendly (DNF) score—a comprehensive indicator system chosen and weighted by stakeholders. The DNF scores of 189 China National Important Agricultural Heritage System (China-NIAHS) sites were evaluated, and their distributions were analyzed on a national scale in China. The results highlight the importance of natural landscape and cultural value in the eyes of digital nomads, particularly emphasizing aesthetic landscape features, climatic suitability, and a community atmosphere. Sites with the highest DNF scores are located mostly in the Zhejiang and Yunnan provinces, sharing characteristics that appeal to digital nomads. The DNF scores exhibit regional variations, with high-DNF-score sites being concentrated in southwestern and southeastern China. By enhancing our understanding of digital nomads’ preferences and the influencing factors, this study provides valuable insights for the environmental management, policymaking, and sustainable development of China-NIAHS sites considering contemporary environmental and social changes.

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Transforming river basins: Post-livelihood transition agricultural landscapes and implications for natural resource governance

Cited by 17 publications

References 104 publications

Periurban Transformations in the Global South and Their Impact on Water-Based Livelihoods

Periurban Transformations in the Global South and Their Impact on Water-Based Livelihoods

Rethinking Landscape Conservation: Linking Globalized Agriculture to Changes to Indigenous Community-Managed Landscapes

Opportunities for China’s Agricultural Heritage Systems under the “Digital Nomadism” Trend—A Stakeholder-Weighted Approach

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