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Indigenous Communities, Land Use and Tropical Deforestation

Description du projet

Une approche globale pour lutter contre la déforestation tropicale

La déforestation tropicale est un problème environnemental urgent, qui contribue de manière significative au changement climatique en libérant d’importantes émissions de carbone dans l’atmosphère. Les principaux facteurs de déforestation dans les régions tropicales sont l’expansion de l’agriculture et l’extraction du bois. Dans ce contexte, le projet INCLUDE, financé par le CER, adoptera une nouvelle approche, destinée à comprendre l’interaction complexe des facteurs technologiques, environnementaux, économiques et sociaux qui influencent la dynamique de l’utilisation des sols. En examinant le rôle des structures de gouvernance et les perspectives des parties prenantes, ces travaux s’efforcent d’identifier des interventions efficaces pour réduire la déforestation et la dégradation des forêts. Axé sur la province de Salta, dans le nord-ouest de l’Argentine, le projet s’attaque aux taux élevés de modification de l’occupation des sols tout en tenant compte de la présence de communautés indigènes et rurales.

Objectif

Tropical deforestation is an important contributor to climate change, through the release of significant amounts of carbon in the atmosphere. The main proximate cause of deforestation in tropical regions is agricultural expansion, followed by timber extraction. The general objective of this research is to understand how the interaction of technological, environmental, economic and social factors influence land use dynamics, including household decisions, about agricultural expansion and resource extraction in sensitive tropical regions. More specific questions relate to the role of various governance structures, particularly those recognizing common property regimes of land tenure to indigenous and rural communities, and the deliberative evaluation about the opportunity of reforming such structures in order to reduce deforestation and forest degradation. Although such aspects have been addressed in a variety of contexts, the approach proposed here is novel as a) it explicitly models the interaction between institutional, environmental, technological and socio-economic factors at different spatio-temporal scales, b) it specifically focuses on the governance structures associated with different land tenure regimes through the lenses of Social Network Analysis (SNA), c) uses a Q-methodology framework to develop a participatory approach to study stakeholders’ perspectives and attitudes on the necessary governance interventions to prevent deforestation and forest degradation and d) it assesses the relationships between agricultural expansion, deforestation, governance structures and stakeholders’ attitudes, with particular attention to the sensitivity of household land use decisions and resource extraction. In order to meet the research objectives, this project will focus on the province of Salta in the dry Chaco in North-Western Argentina, a region characterized by high rates of land cover change and the presence of indigenous/rural communities.

Régime de financement

ERC-COG - Consolidator Grant

Institution d’accueil

UNIVERSITAET BERN
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 1 596 376,81
Adresse
HOCHSCHULSTRASSE 6
3012 Bern
Suisse

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Région
Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera Espace Mittelland Bern / Berne
Type d’activité
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Liens
Coût total
€ 1 596 376,81

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