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The role of fire in changing land use and livelihoods in Riau-Sumatra

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Title The role of fire in changing land use and livelihoods in Riau-Sumatra
 
Creator Suyanto, S.
Applegate, G.
Permana, R.P.
Khususiyah, N.
Kurniawan, I.
 
Subject forest fires
oil palms
plantations
partnerships
tenure systems
conflicts
geographical information systems
forest plantations
 
Description Results from remote sensing analysis, participatory mapping, socio-economic interviews, and hotspot information that were analyzed in a geographic information system (GIS) show how fire has changed the landscape through its use in land preparation for oil palm and timber plantations and in the development of transmigration settlements. These timber and oil palm plantations have greatly altered the livelihood options of the communities, and have created conflict between communities and companies over land-use allocation and tenure. In many cases, conflict over tenure has been the motive for forest and land fires during the annual dry season. The study suggests that, where partnerships between communities and companies were established to develop oil palm and timber plantations that included a greater sharing of benefits and use of land, the incidence of fires designed to damage the planted resource was greatly reduced.
 
Date 2004
2012-06-04T09:09:01Z
2012-06-04T09:09:01Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Suyanto, S., Applegate, G., Permana, R.P., Khususiyah, N., Kurniawan, I. 2004. The role of fire in changing land use and livelihoods in Riau-Sumatra . Ecology and Society 9 (1) :15p. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol9/iss1/art15. ISSN: 1708-3087.
1708-3087
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/18980
https://www.cifor.org/knowledge/publication/1541
 
Language en
 
Source Ecology and Society