Landscape Transformation in Tropical Latin America: Assessing Trends and Policy Implications for REDD+

Forests

Pablo Pacheco⁴  Mariel Aguilar-Stྎn³  Jan Börner¹  Andres Etter²  Louis Putzel⁴ 

[1] CIFOR, Rua do Russel 450, Bairro Glória, CEP 22.210-010, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; E-Mail:;Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Departamento de Ecología y Territorio, Transv. 4° No. 42-00, Bogotá, Colombia; E-Mail:;Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Sognsveien 68, 0855 Oslo, Norway; E-Mail:;Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Jalan CIFOR Situ Gede, Bogor Barat 16115, Indonesia; E-Mail:

关键词: drivers;    land-use change;    landscapes;    Latin America;    REDD+;   

DOI  :  10.3390/f2010001

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Important transformations are underway in tropical landscapes in Latin America with implications for economic development and climate change. Landscape transformation is driven not only by national policies and markets, but also by global market dynamics associated with an increased role for transnational traders and investors. National and global trends affect a disparate number of social, political and economic interactions taking place at the local level, which ultimately shapes land-use and socio-economic change. This paper reviews five different trajectories of landscape change in tropical Latin America, and discusses their implications for development and conservation: (1) Market-driven growth of agribusiness; (2) expansion and modernization of traditional cattle ranching; (3) slow growth of peasant agriculture; (4) logging in production forest frontiers; and (5) resurgence of agro-extractive economies. Contrasting trade-offs between economic development and forest conservation emerge across these landscapes, calling for nuanced policy responses to manage them in the context of climate change. This discussion sets the background to assess how reduction of emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and enhancing carbon stocks (REDD+) aims should be better aligned with current landscape trajectories and associated actors to better address climate-change mitigation in forest landscapes with effective and equitable outcomes.

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