Jevons paradox and the loss of natural habitat in the Argentinean Chaco: The impact of the indigenous communities’ land titling and the Forest Law in the province of Salta

Ceddia, Michele Graziano; Zepharovich, Elena

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.09.044

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“…Conservation activities appear largely disconnected from economic activities, until they reach the local level, where they target the same land and land users. Furthermore, the lack of interaction between actors/flows in either domain appears to contribute to a case of Jevons paradox [61,62]: the increased accessibility of cash-crop seedlings, facilitated by higher-level conservation actors, enhances farmers' LU efficiency. Yet this also feeds pressure to expand cash-crop plantations, as external demands rise.…”

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confidence: 99%

Land Competition under Telecoupling: Distant Actors’ Environmental versus Economic Claims on Land in North-Eastern Madagascar

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In north-eastern Madagascar, maintenance of biodiversity competes with expansion of land for agriculture and mining. The concept of “telecoupling” provides a framework for analysis of distant actors and institutions that influence local land use decisions. However, there is a lack of knowledge regarding the extent of telecoupling of land governance in north-eastern Madagascar and a lack of evidence regarding its role in driving land use change and land competition. Using a descriptive Social Network Analysis, we disentangled distant interactions between actors in terms of flows and institutions. Our findings show that the domains of economic and environmental interactions are dominated by actors from different sectors that have claims on the same land but generally do not interact. Distant influences occurring via remote flows of goods, money, and institutions serve to reinforce local land competition. Balancing economic and environmental land claims for more sustainable regional development in north-eastern Madagascar requires collaboration between actors across sectors, scales, and domains.

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Land Competition under Telecoupling: Distant Actors’ Environmental versus Economic Claims on Land in North-Eastern Madagascar

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“…It has been suggested that rebound effect or Jevon's paradox (i.e., higher intensification promotes expansion rather than contraction) is common in modern commodity frontiers where there are no physical or institutional restrictions to land use change, and where the demand is elastic to price (e.g., feed or energy crops, such as maize and soybeans) [60]. In this context, Ceddia et al [61] analyzed the relationship between the yield and cultivated area of soybean in the Chaco of Salta province and found evidence supporting the Jevon's paradox. However, their study only analyzes soybean for a few departments of the Argentine Chaco.…”

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Are Ecological Modernization Narratives Useful for Understanding and Steering Social-Ecological Change in the Argentine Chaco?

Mastrangelo

Aguiar

2019

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During the past decades, the Ecological Modernization Theory, and associated ideas such as the Forest Transition Theory and Land Sparing Hypothesis, have dominated the academic and policy arenas regarding the solutions to current environmental crises. However, critiques were raised as these theories, originally conceived for developed countries, started to be applied in developing countries for explaining and prescribing social-ecological transitions. Here, we assess the validity of five key assumptions of Ecological Modernization narratives as applied to the Argentine Chaco, a global deforestation hotspot. We reviewed existing literature and conducted straightforward analysis to disentangle relationships among key variables. Although agriculture intensified, there is no evidence that this intensification inhibited agricultural expansion. Rural depopulation took place between 2001 and 2010; however, deforestation rates did not decrease, and the quality of life of migrants did not increase compared to those that stayed in rural areas. Our review suggests that the consequences of agriculture intensification on biodiversity and the provision of multiple ecosystem services exceeds the area used. Therefore, available evidence does not support the assumed causal relationships of Ecological Modernization, and even contradicts most assumptions. We propose a series of analytical shifts to better capture the complexity of social-ecological transitions in modern commodity frontiers.

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“…We hypothesized that the primary economic activity of landholders would be a strong driver of temporal and spatial enrollment patterns linked to adverse selection. Participants in this PES program range from private landowners with large agricultural operations to real estate agents, indigenous communities, and local governments managing public land (Graziano Ceddia and Zepharovich, 2017; le Polain de Waroux et al, 2017; Marinaro et al, 2017). In addition to primary economic activity of landowners, we examined three other factors that could influence enrollment patterns related to adverse selection: 1) whether landowners were local or absentee, 2) size of enrolled property, and 3) type of land-use allowed at the site under PES, which ranged from partial forest removal for silvopastoral management to strict conservation.…”

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Policy lessons from spatiotemporal enrollment patterns of Payment for Ecosystem Service Programs in Argentina

Núñez‐Regueiro

Branch

Hiller

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Jevons paradox and the loss of natural habitat in the Argentinean Chaco: The impact of the indigenous communities’ land titling and the Forest Law in the province of Salta

Cited by 40 publications

References 27 publications

Land Competition under Telecoupling: Distant Actors’ Environmental versus Economic Claims on Land in North-Eastern Madagascar

Land Competition under Telecoupling: Distant Actors’ Environmental versus Economic Claims on Land in North-Eastern Madagascar

Are Ecological Modernization Narratives Useful for Understanding and Steering Social-Ecological Change in the Argentine Chaco?

Policy lessons from spatiotemporal enrollment patterns of Payment for Ecosystem Service Programs in Argentina

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