Regional interdependence and forest “transitions”: Substitute deforestation limits the relevance of local reversals

Pfaff, Alexander; Walker, Robert

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2009.07.010

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“…Such landscapes would not be expected to undergo large-scale abandonment and regrowth of forest cover over time. The Midwest became a production landscape to provide food and timber to the urbanizing eastern cities in the late 1800s as new railroads were able to transport goods eastward and smallscale farmers abandoned less productive landscapes in the northeast [32]. Understanding whether other tropical forest landscapes are likely to follow the Mato Grosso model of production landscapes for distal consumption is a critical question for identifying management and policy options that balance provisioning services such as food with other ecosystem services such as climate storage, hydrological cycling and biodiversity in tropical forest regions.…”

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Export-oriented deforestation in Mato Grosso: harbinger or exception for other tropical forests?

DeFries

Herold

Verchot

et al. 2013

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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The Brazilian state of Mato Grosso was a global deforestation hotspot in the early 2000s. Deforested land is used predominantly to produce meat for distal consumption either through cattle ranching or soya bean for livestock feed. Deforestation declined dramatically in the latter part of the decade through a combination of market forces, policies, enforcement and improved monitoring. This study assesses how representative the national-level drivers underlying Mato Grosso's export-oriented deforestation are in other tropical forest countries based on agricultural exports, commercial agriculture and urbanization. We also assess how pervasive the governance and technical monitoring capacity that enabled Mato Grosso's decline in deforestation is in other countries. We find that between 41 and 54 per cent of 2000–2005 deforestation in tropical forest countries (other than Brazil) occurred in countries with drivers similar to Brazil. Very few countries had national-level governance and capacity similar to Brazil. Results suggest that the ecological, hydrological and social consequences of land-use change for export-oriented agriculture as discussed in this Theme Issue were applicable in about one-third of all tropical forest countries in 2000–2005. However, the feasibility of replicating Mato Grosso's success with controlling deforestation is more limited. Production landscapes to support distal consumption similar to Mato Grosso are likely to become more prevalent and are unlikely to follow a land-use transition model with increasing forest cover.

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Export-oriented deforestation in Mato Grosso: harbinger or exception for other tropical forests?

DeFries

Herold

Verchot

et al. 2013

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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“…Pfaff (1999) ainda incluiu, aos fatores associados ao desmatamento, a importância das características da cobertura da terra, como a qualidade do solo e densidade de vegetação, e os custos de transporte para o acesso aos mercados. As influências dos investimentos em infraestrutura e a pressão dos mercados para a produção agropecuária também foram considerados condicionantes para a conversão florestal da região (PFAFF;WALKER, 2010). Tais fatores são diretamente atribuídos à conectividade e resiliência proporcionadas pela presença de estradas (KIRBY et al, 2006;PFAFF et al, 2007;WEINHOLD;REIS, 2008;PERZ et al, 2012), ainda que o peso e o papel das estradas no debate sobre a conversão florestal precisam ser redimensionados (CAMARA et al, 2005).…”

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Comunidades ribeirinhas como forma socioespacial de expressão urbana na Amazônia: uma tipologia para a região do Baixo Tapajós (Pará-Brasil)

Amaral¹,

Dal’Asta²,

Brigatti³

et al. 2013

Rev. bras. estud. popul.

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O fenômeno urbano na Amazônia contemporânea se estende pelo território e se estrutura por diversas formas socioespaciais, tais como as comunidades locais, que, ao formarem redes urbanas incipientes, têm características particulares definindo sua importância na estruturação do território regional. Neste artigo, é proposto o uso de técnicas qualiquantitativas para definir uma tipologia para as comunidades ribeirinhas do Baixo Tapajós (Pará): variáveis descritoras, obtidas por questionários de campo aplicados a 62 comunidades, entre Santarém e Itaituba, e submetidas à estatística multivariada. A partir da análise de componentes principais para 30 variáveis e agrupamento hierárquico, cinco grupos de comunidades foram identificados e descritos; resultado considerado consistente com as observações de campo. Variáveis relacionadas principalmente ao uso da terra e à infraestrutura condicionaram esta classificação. Comunidades em unidades de conservação, independente da localização na margem do Rio Tapajós, apresentaram situação distinta das demais, sendo que a presença do Estado, suportando programas governamentais, mostrou-se fundamental para manutenção de todas as comunidades.

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“…Land use transition was put forward by Grainger (1986Grainger ( , 1995 based on his study on the land use in forested countries. From then on, the research concerning land use transition has been carried out vigorously, but which mainly focused on forest transition (Foster et al, 1998;Mather et al, 1999;Lambin, 2008a, 2008b;Barbier et al, 2010;Pfaff and Walker, 2010;Rudel et al, 2010). Recently, related research on land use transition combining with the characteristics of China's socio-economic development has been carried out rapidly since the research field of land use transition was introduced to China (Long and Li, 2002;Long, 2003a).…”

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The coupling characteristics and mechanism of farmland and rural housing land transition in China

Long

2012

J. Geogr. Sci.

126

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Abstract:Land use transition refers to the changes in land use morphology (both dominant morphology and recessive morphology) of a certain region over a certain period of time driven by socio-economic change and innovation, and it usually corresponds to the transition of socio-economic development phase. In China, farmland and rural housing land are the two major sources of land use transition. This paper analyzes the spatio-temporal coupling characteristics of farmland and rural housing land transition in China, using high-resolution Landsat TM (Thematic Mapper) data in 2000 and 2008, and the data from the Ministry of Land and Resources of China. The outcomes indicated that: (1) during 2000-2008, the correlation coefficient of farmland vs. rural housing land change is -0.921, and it shows that the change pattern of farmland and rural housing land is uncoordinated; (2) the result of Spearman rank correlation analysis shows that rural housing land change has played a major role in the mutual transformation of farmland and rural housing land; and (3) it shows a high-degree spatial coupling between farmland and rural housing land change in southeast China during [2000][2001][2002][2003][2004][2005][2006][2007][2008]. In general, farmland and rural housing land transition in China is driven by socio-economic, bio-physical and managerial three-dimensional driving factors through the interactions among rural population, farmland and rural housing land. However, the spatio-temporal coupling phenomenon and mechanism of farmland and rural housing land transition in China are largely due to the "dual-track" structure of rural-urban development.

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Regional interdependence and forest “transitions”: Substitute deforestation limits the relevance of local reversals

Cited by 93 publications

References 57 publications

Export-oriented deforestation in Mato Grosso: harbinger or exception for other tropical forests?

Export-oriented deforestation in Mato Grosso: harbinger or exception for other tropical forests?

Comunidades ribeirinhas como forma socioespacial de expressão urbana na Amazônia: uma tipologia para a região do Baixo Tapajós (Pará-Brasil)

The coupling characteristics and mechanism of farmland and rural housing land transition in China

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