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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.04.001
	Titling community land to prevent deforestation: An evaluation of a best-case program in Morona-Santiago, Ecuador
	Buntaine M.T.; Hamilton S.E.; Millones M.
发表日期	2015
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	33
英文摘要	Assigning land title to collective landholders is one of the primary policies land management agencies use to avoid deforestation worldwide. Such programs are designed to improve the ability of landholders to legally exclude competing users and thereby strengthen incentives to manage forests for long-term benefits. Despite the prevalence of this hypothesis, findings about the impacts of land titling programs on deforestation are mixed. Evidence is often unreliable because programs are targeted according to factors that independently influence the conversion of forests. We evaluate a donor-funded land titling and land management program for indigenous communities implemented in Morona-Santiago, Ecuador. This program offers a close to best case scenario for a land titling program to reduce deforestation because of colonization pressure, availability of payments when titled communities maintain forests, and limited opportunities for commercial agriculture. We match plots in program areas with similar plots outside program areas on covariates that influence the conversion of forests. Based on matched comparisons, we do not find evidence that land titling or community management plans reduced forest loss in the five years following legal recognition. The results call into question land titling as a direct deforestation strategy and suggests land titling is better viewed a precursor to other programs. © 2015 The Authors.
英文关键词	Community management; Deforestation; Geospatial evaluation; Land tenure; Land titling
学科领域	colonization; community forestry; community resource management; deforestation; forest management; GIS; incentive; land management; land tenure; landowner; legal system; environmental change; global change; indigenous population; land reform; landholding; spatial analysis; Ecuador; Morona-Santiago
语种	英语
scopus关键词	colonization; community forestry; community resource management; deforestation; forest management; GIS; incentive; land management; land tenure; landowner; legal system; environmental change; global change; indigenous population; land reform; landholding; spatial analysis; Ecuador; Morona-Santiago
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117505
作者单位	University of California, Santa Barbara, 4422 Bren Hall, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, United States; Salisbury University, 1101 Camden Avenue, Salisbury, MD 21801, United States; College of William and Mary, Swem Library, Williamsburg, VA 23186, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Buntaine M.T.,Hamilton S.E.,Millones M.. Titling community land to prevent deforestation: An evaluation of a best-case program in Morona-Santiago, Ecuador[J],2015,33.
APA	Buntaine M.T.,Hamilton S.E.,&Millones M..(2015).Titling community land to prevent deforestation: An evaluation of a best-case program in Morona-Santiago, Ecuador.Global Environmental Change,33.
MLA	Buntaine M.T.,et al."Titling community land to prevent deforestation: An evaluation of a best-case program in Morona-Santiago, Ecuador".Global Environmental Change 33(2015).