Identifying the socio-economic factors of deforestation and degradation: a case study in Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan

Ullah, Saif; Tian, Gang; Rauf, Tariq; Sikandar, Furqan; Liu, Jia Qi; Noor, Rana Shahzad

doi:10.1007/s10708-020-10332-y

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“…increases extreme drought events that lead to deforestation and forest degradation at an alarming rate [43]. Forest polices and forest management policies in Pakistan are focusing on forest products while neglecting the potential threats that degrade the forest.…”

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“…Deforestation and degradation are the main cause of substantial carbon emission in tropical forest, which has global Impacts on the balance and sustainability of the global climate system [40][41][42][43][44][45]. Forest fires in tropical forest is basically due to extreme drought, these disturbances are the major threats to the worldwide forest ecosystems [17,46].…”

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Recent global warming as a proximate cause of deforestation and forest degradation in northern Pakistan

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Instrumental climatological records such as weather stations data of northern areas of Pakistan are not sufficient to assess the forest extreme events reliably. To understand the past climatic variability, tree ring width based climatic reconstruction is the best alternative to trace climate variability that goes back in time. Quercus Incana is the most sensitive species to drought and climatic variation in northern Pakistan. However, very little research quantifies the rate of ongoing climatic changes. A total of 65 tree cores were collected from two sites to understand the radial growth of Q. Incana to extreme drought events. The radial growth is mainly affected by high temperatures during May-July. In addition, radial growth exhibits a positive correlation with February-June precipitation while it is negatively correlated with the September precipitation. The radial growth decrease, particularly in harsh climatic conditions. The reconstructed tree ring record was strongly coherent with the May-June self-calibrated Palmer drought severity index (scPDSI) and reliable in reconstructing drought variability for the period 1750–2014. During the past 264 years, wet periods were found during 1980–2010, 1812–1836, and 1754–1760, while dry periods were found during 1896–1922, 1864–1876, and 1784–1788. Our reconstruction explains 39.8% of the scPDSI variance. The extreme drought and wet years we arrived at were in close agreement with the drought and wet periods that occurred in northern Pakistan. Wavelet analysis revealed drought variability at periodicities of 2.2–2.5, 3.3, 3–4, 16.7, 16.8, and 68–78.8 years. Hence it is concluded that deforestation and forest degradation rate increased with extreme drought and wet years. Overall, the variation of drought in northern Pakistan seems to have been affected due to El Nino south oscillation, Pacific decadal oscillation, or Atlantic multi-decadal oscillations.

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Recent global warming as a proximate cause of deforestation and forest degradation in northern Pakistan

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“…Scientific literature has explored the relationship between rural residents and deforestation [13][14][15][16]. Such literature has helped to identify the preferences and beliefs of residents on conservation issues [17].…”

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“…Previous studies related to deforestation in Pakistan are mainly focused on timber production, conversion to agriculture, roadbuilding, and human-caused fire [48]. According to the studies of Ullah et al [14,49] and Ali et al [14,49], deforestation in northern areas is due to the construction of roads and high population growth in the last few years. However, to the best knowledge of authors, no research has so far been conducted to examine the behavior of rural residents toward deforestation, especially the study related to the economic motivation of rural residents.…”

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Predicting Behavioral Intention of Rural Inhabitants toward Economic Incentive for Deforestation in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan

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The conservation of forest in the northern areas of Pakistan is the major priority of the national environmental policy to fight against global warming. Despite the policy for the protection of forest, rural residents’ behavior toward economic incentives for deforestation may undermine their conservation goals. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to understand the factors that affect the illegal behaviors related to deforestation in the northern areas of Pakistan. The present study applied the socio-psychological theory of planned behavior to predict the behavioral intention of rural residents toward economic incentives for deforestation. Correlations were explored between background factors toward motivations for deforestation based on positive and negative views through open-ended questions. Attitude and descriptive norm were found good predictors to perceive the behaviors. The findings of the study suggest that rural communities’ support for compliance with policies is vital for the long-term efficacy and protection of the forest in the region. Further, change in the behaviors of inhabitants toward the ecosystem through training can be improved to manage the forest.

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“…Deforestation ranked at 2 nd with mean and S.D 4.32±1.05 because once the reason of climate change prevailed the sugarcane growers. Deforestation is the major threats and one of the main reasons of climate change resulted the environmental changes in developing countries especially in Pakistan (Gomes et al, 2019;Ullah et al, 2020). Respondents also perceived that excess of CO2 from agriculture activities had an impact on climate change and was ranked at 3 rd with mean 3.74±1.09.…”

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Sugarcane Farmers Perception, Comprehension Regarding Climate Change and its Mitigation Through Adoption of Cultural Practices

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Sugarcane is an important cash crop in Pakistan. Recently, the average per hectare production of sugarcane is low due to climatic variation. Therefore, sugarcane farmers are threatened by this emerging issue that has drastically affected their livelihoods, food security, and sustainability. This study was designed to analyze the perception, comprehension, and adoption of cultural practices in the mitigation of the impact of climate change. For this purpose, district Rahim yar khan was selected purposively from the Province of Punjab as the universe of the study; as one of the highly cultivated areas among all districts of Punjab. From selected districts, two tehsils were randomly selected, namely Sadiqabad and Kanpur. From each selected tehsil, 5 villages were selected using randomized sampling technique. In each selected village, 18 sugarcane farmers were selected randomly thus, making a total of 180 respondents. The data were collected through quantitative methods. A pre-tested and well-structured interview schedule was developed for the collection of information from sugarcane farmers. Data were analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics through the Statistical Package for Social Sciences. Results indicated that there was a significant difference between the two groups, adopter and non-adopters of mitigation strategies towards climate change. The results revealed that the majority (98.3 % and 75 %) of the growers reported that an increase in temperature and deforestation for the last five years respectively. Moreover, residues burring and deforestation were major causes of climate change followed by an excess of CO2 from agriculture activities and farm operations. The study recommended that the adoption of cultural practices in mitigation of the impact of climate change should be promoted through information sources.

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Identifying the socio-economic factors of deforestation and degradation: a case study in Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan

Cited by 27 publications

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Recent global warming as a proximate cause of deforestation and forest degradation in northern Pakistan

Recent global warming as a proximate cause of deforestation and forest degradation in northern Pakistan

Predicting Behavioral Intention of Rural Inhabitants toward Economic Incentive for Deforestation in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan

Sugarcane Farmers Perception, Comprehension Regarding Climate Change and its Mitigation Through Adoption of Cultural Practices

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