气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Swidden, rubber and carbon: Can REDD+ work for people and the environment in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia?

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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.05.011
	Swidden, rubber and carbon: Can REDD+ work for people and the environment in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia?
	Fox J.; Castella J.-C.; Ziegler A.D.
发表日期	2014
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	29
英文摘要	Swidden (also called shifting cultivation) has long been the dominant farming system in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia (MMSEA). Today the ecological bounty of this region is threatened by the expansion of settled agriculture, including the proliferation of rubber plantations. In the current conception of REDD+, landscapes involving swidden qualify almost automatically for replacement by other land-use systems because swiddens are perceived to be degraded and inefficient with regard to carbon sequestration. However, swiddening in some cases may be carbon-neutral or even carbon positive, compared with some other types of land-use systems. In this paper we describe how agricultural policies and institutions have affected land use in the region over the last several decades and the impact these policies have had on the livelihoods of swiddeners and other smallholders. We also explore whether incentivizing transitions away from swiddening to the cultivation of rubber will directly or reliably produce carbon gains. We argue that because government policies affect how land is used, they also influence carbon emissions, farmer livelihoods, environmental services, and a host of other variables. A deeper and more systematic analysis of the multiple consequences of these policies is consequently necessary for the design of successful REDD+ policies in MMSEA, and other areas of the developing world. REDD+ policies should be structured not so much to 'hold the forest boundary' but to influence the types of land-use changes that are occurring so that they support both sustainable livelihoods and environmental services, including (but not limited to) carbon. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	Carbon; Livelihoods; Mainland Southeast Asia; REDD+; Rubber; Swidden
语种	英语
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/117689
作者单位	East-West Center, 1601 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI, United States; Institute of Research for Development, France; Centre for International Forestry Research, Indonesia; Geography Department, National University of Singapore, Singapore; National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute, Laos
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Fox J.,Castella J.-C.,Ziegler A.D.. Swidden, rubber and carbon: Can REDD+ work for people and the environment in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia?[J],2014,29.
APA	Fox J.,Castella J.-C.,&Ziegler A.D..(2014).Swidden, rubber and carbon: Can REDD+ work for people and the environment in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia?.Global Environmental Change,29.
MLA	Fox J.,et al."Swidden, rubber and carbon: Can REDD+ work for people and the environment in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia?".Global Environmental Change 29(2014).