Integrating Forest Cover Change with Census Data: Drivers and Contexts from Bolivia and the Lao PDR

Article Article scientifique Article Integrating Forest Cover Change with Census Data: Drivers and Contexts from Bolivia and the Lao PDR eng 2015 author Boillat Sébastien 778822 author Dao Quoc-Hy 27151 author Bottazzi Patrick 504665 author Sandoval Yuri author Luna Abraham author Thongmanivong Sithong author Lerch Louca 511489 author Bastide Joan 521683 author Heinimann Andreas author Giraut Frédéric 0000-0001-8081-9849 652684 45-82 10.3390/land4010045 2073-445X http://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/4/1/45/html The aim of this paper is to explore possible links between forest cover change and characteristics of social-ecological systems at sub-national scale based mainly on census data. We assessed relationships between population density, poverty, ethnicity, accessibility and forest cover change during the last decade for four regions of Bolivia and the Lao PDR, combining a parcel-based with a cell-based approach. We found that accessibility is a key driver of forest cover change, yet it has the effect of intensifying other economic and policy-related underlying drivers, like colonization policies, cash crop demand, but also policies that lead to forest gain in one case. Poverty does not appear as a driver of deforestation, but the co-occurrence of poverty and forest loss driven by external investments appears critical in terms of social-ecological development. Ethnicity was found to be a moderate explanatory of forest cover change, but appears as a cluster of converging socio-economic characteristics related with settlement history and land resource access. The identification of such clusters can help ordering communities into a typology of social-ecological systems, and discussing their possible outcomes in light of a critical view on forest transition theory, as well as the relevance and predictive power of the variables assessed. Forest cover change Deforestation Integrative land change science Social-ecological systems Meso-scale Forest transitions Rural poverty Bolivia Laos Dewey 333.7-333.9 Dewey 910 Dewey 354.3 Autre SNIS 18 Institut des sciences de l'environnement 0DB 120 Département de géographie et environnement T2 199 Institut de la gouvernance de l'environnement et du développement territorial TF false 859 Global Resource Information Database (GRID) 942 ISE Biodiversité 941 ISE Pôle Informatique environnementale 946 ISE Villes et territoires 954 Laboratoire InfoGéo 939 Pôle/Institut Gouvernance de l'environnement et développement territorial (PI-GEDT) 1057 TIGERS Land 4 119d65da-fa6b-465f-8c77-3a782c7b47f8 Article (Published version) Public land-04-00045.pdf 10578519 application/pdf openAccess Centres et instituts / Institut des sciences de l'environnement Faculté des sciences de la société / Département de géographie et environnement Faculté des sciences de la société / Institut de la gouvernance de l'environnement et du développement territorial

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