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Provedor de dados: | 7
País: | Canada
Título: | Forests as landscapes of social inequality: tropical forest cover and land distribution among shifting cultivators
Autores: | Coomes, Oliver T.; Department of Geography, McGill University; oliver.coomes@mcgill.ca; Takasaki, Yoshito; Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo; takasaki@e.u-tokyo.ac.jp; Rhemtulla, Jeanine M.; Department of Forest &amp; Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia; jeanine.rhemtulla@ubc.ca.
Data: | 2016-08-19
Ano: | 2016
Palavras-chave: | Amazonia; Land inequality; Land use and land cover change; Path dependency; Secondary forests.
Resumo: | Can social inequality be seen imprinted in a forest landscape? We studied the relationship between land holding, land use, and inequality in a peasant community in the Peruvian Amazon where farmers practice swidden-fallow cultivation. Longitudinal data on land holding, land use, and land cover were gathered through field-level surveys (n = 316) and household interviews (n = 51) in 1994/1995 and 2007. Forest cover change between 1965 and 2007 was documented through interpretation of air photos and satellite imagery. We introduce the concept of &amp;#8220;land use inequality&amp;#8221; to capture differences across households in the distribution of forest fallowing and orchard raising as key land uses that affect household welfare and the sustainability of swidden-fallow agriculture. We find that land holding, land use, and forest cover distribution are correlated and that the forest today reflects social inequality a decade prior. Although initially land-poor households may catch up in terms of land holdings, their use and land cover remain impoverished. Differential land use investment through time links social inequality and forest cover. Implications are discussed for the study of forests as landscapes of inequality, the relationship between social inequality and forest composition, and the forest-poverty nexus.
Tipo: | Peer-Reviewed Reports
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | vol21/iss3/art20/
Editor: | Resilience Alliance
Formato: | text/html application/pdf
Fonte: | Ecology and Society; Vol. 21, No. 3 (2016)