Descripción del proyecto
Un enfoque holístico para combatir la deforestación tropical
La deforestación tropical es un problema medioambiental acuciante, que contribuye significativamente al cambio climático al liberar importantes emisiones de carbono a la atmósfera. Los principales motores de la deforestación en las regiones tropicales son la expansión agrícola y la extracción de madera. En este contexto, el equipo del proyecto INCLUDE, financiado por el Consejo Europeo de Investigación, adoptará un enfoque novedoso, con el objetivo de comprender la compleja interacción de los factores tecnológicos, medioambientales, económicos y sociales que influyen en la dinámica del uso del suelo. Al examinar el papel de las estructuras de gobernanza y las perspectivas de las partes interesadas, esta investigación pretende identificar intervenciones eficaces para reducir la deforestación y la degradación forestal. El equipo del proyecto, que se centra en la provincia de Salta, en el noroeste de Argentina, aborda los elevados índices de cambio de la cobertura terrestre sin dejar de reconocer la presencia de comunidades indígenas y rurales.
Objetivo
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.
Ámbito científico
Programa(s)
Régimen de financiación
ERC-COG - Consolidator GrantInstitución de acogida
3012 Bern
Suiza