Impacts of the deforestation driven by agribusiness on urban population and economic activity in the Dry Chaco of Argentina

Sacchi, Laura Valeria; Gasparri, Ignácio

doi:10.1080/1747423x.2015.1098739

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“…Instead, they emphasize the importance of preserving the forest, their culture, and their current way of life, stating that they have only experienced negative aspects of deforestation, including loss of livelihood, increased floods, stronger winds, and biodiversity loss. Their perception is supported by several studies [32,58,59].…”

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Land-Use Conflict in the Gran Chaco: Finding Common Ground through Use of the Q Method

2020

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In a world characterized by ongoing overexploitation of finite resources—such as land and forests—stakeholder conflicts over use of remaining resources occur frequently and are likely to intensify. There is increasing awareness of the need to better understand individual stakeholders’ perspectives, which often condition behavior, in order to address conflicts and inform wider policymaking. We used the Q method to capture the perspectives of diverse stakeholders and highlight consensus and distinguishing statements. Our results bring to the fore three main perspectives on deforestation (development, family agriculture, and subsistence) and several points of agreement and disagreement. The strongest disagreement concerns the benefits and costs of deforestation: the development perspective portrays benefits as mutual and costs as marginal, whereas the family agriculture and subsistence perspectives associate no benefits and extreme costs with deforestation—including loss of livelihoods and culture. Nevertheless, stakeholder consensus emerges on other points—especially the need for participatory long-term strategies of land use. This paper shows how the Q method can be applied to better understand land-use conflicts.

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Land-Use Conflict in the Gran Chaco: Finding Common Ground through Use of the Q Method

2020

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“…The forest land lost its major share to the homestead/garden land use and further homestead/ garden land use lost its major share to the urban land use. Thus, agricultural intensification and urbanization are the two major factors of deforestation in developing countries (Goers et al, 2012;Sacchi and Gasparri, 2016). The conversion of forest and agricultural lands should be restricted by devising effective town planning measures.…”

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Remote Sensing Data and SLEUTH Urban Growth Model: As Decision Support Tools for Urban Planning

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Sri Lanka is experiencing speedy urbanization by converting the agriculture land and other natural land cover into built-up land. The urban population of Sri Lanka is expected to reach to 60% by 2030 from 14% in 2010. The rapid growth in urban population and urban areas in Sri Lanka may cause serious socioeconomic disparities, if they are not handled properly. Thus, planners in Sri Lanka are in need of information about past and future urban growth patterns to plan a better and sustainable urban future for Sri Lanka. In this paper, we analyzed the characteristics of past land use and land cover trends in Matara City of Sri Lanka from 1980 to 2010 to assess the historic urban dynamics. The land use change detection analysis based on remote sensing datasets reveal that the conversion of homestead/garden and paddy into urban land is evident in Matara City. The historic urban trends are projected into the near future by using SLEUTH urban growth model to identify the hot spots of future urbanization and as well as the urban growth patterns in Matara City up to the basic administrative level, i.e., Grama Niladari Divisions (GND). The urban growth simulations for the year 2030 reveal that 29 GNDs out of 66 GNDs in Matara City will be totally converted into urban land. Whereas, 28 GNDs will have urban land cover from 75% to 99% by 2030. The urban growth simulations are further analyzed with respect to the proposed Matara city development plan by the Urban Development Authority (UDA) of Sri Lanka. The results show that the UDA's city development plan of Matara will soon be outpaced by rapid urbanization. Based on the calibration and validation results, the SLEUTH model proved to be a useful planning tool to understand the near future urbanization of Sri Lankan cities.

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“…Brazil [28,29,30 ,31,32]. As a result of expansion of agriculture and pasture, this region suffers one of the highest deforestation rates worldwide and is among the most threatened regions in the world [33][34][35][36]. In northwest Argentina [37,38], the landscape is dominated by soybeans and pastures with remnant forest patches between large agricultural fields [37][38][39].…”

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Impacts of the deforestation driven by agribusiness on urban population and economic activity in the Dry Chaco of Argentina

Cited by 13 publications

References 45 publications

Land-Use Conflict in the Gran Chaco: Finding Common Ground through Use of the Q Method

Land-Use Conflict in the Gran Chaco: Finding Common Ground through Use of the Q Method

Remote Sensing Data and SLEUTH Urban Growth Model: As Decision Support Tools for Urban Planning

Open Standards for conservation as a tool for linking research and conservation agendas in complex socio-ecological systems

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