Examining measures for forest management considering spatial distribution of households vulnerable to deforestation

• Project/Area Number: 16H07434
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Environmental policy and social systems
• Research Institution: Forest Research and Management Organization
• Principal Investigator: Ehara Makoto 国立研究開発法人森林研究・整備機構, 森林総合研究所, 主任研究員 等 (70781615)
• Research Collaborator: Heng Sokh
• Project Period (FY): 2016-08-26 – 2018-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
• Budget Amount: ¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000); Fiscal Year 2017: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
• Keywords: 森林減少 / 非木材林産物 / 地域住民 / カンボジア / 森林劣化 / 生態系サービス / 環境影響評価 / 地理情報システム / 地理情報システム（GIS）

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The livelihood of rural residents in Cambodia is often dependent on forests as it provides non-timber forest products (NTFPs). Such forests, however, are rapidly diminishing due to developments in the areas of agribusiness, subsistence agriculture, and timber extraction. Some of the people affected by these developments convert remaining forests to other land uses to compensate for their income loss. This coping strategy can create a vicious circle of further conflicts in forest resource uses and affect the livelihoods of the other residents. With this background and a focus on the affected Kampong Thom province, our study, combined with household surveys and remote sensing analysis, mapped the spatial distribution of households vulnerable to impacts of deforestation. We drew implications for immediate policy interventions and measures to relieve the affected people and to address this problem, by taking the geographical distribution of the vulnerable households into account.

Research Products

• [Int'l Joint Research] 農林水産省森林局(カンボジア)
• [Int'l Joint Research] 農林水産省森林局(カンボジア)
• [Journal Article] Addressing Maladaptive Coping Strategies of Local Communities to Changes in Ecosystem Service Provisions Using the DPSIR Framework (2018)
  • Author(s): Ehara Makoto、Hyakumura Kimihiko、Sato Ren'ya、Kurosawa Kiyoshi、Araya Kunio、Sokh Heng、Kohsaka Ryo
  • Journal Title: Ecological Economics Volume: 149 Pages: 226-238
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.03.008
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] 森林減少と択伐の影響を受ける住民の地理的分布：非木材林産物採取の事例 (2018)
  • Author(s): 江原誠, 松浦俊也, GONG Hao, SOKH Heng, LENG Chivin, CHOEUNG Hong Narith, SEM Rida, 百村帝彦, 野村久子
  • Organizer: 第129回日本森林学会大会学術講演集
• [Presentation] Identifying households taking maladaptive coping strategies: Case study of deforestation in Cambodia (2017)
  • Author(s): EHARA Makoto, HYAKUMURA Kimihiko, NOMURA Hisako, MATSUURA Toshiya, SOKH Heng, LENG Chivin
  • Organizer: 第128回日本森林学会大会
  • Place of Presentation: 鹿児島大学（鹿児島県鹿児島市）
  • Year and Date: 2017-03-27
• [Presentation] Spatial distribution of households vulnerable to deforestation in non-timber forest product collections in Kampong Thom Province，Cambodia (2017)
  • Author(s): EHARA Makoto, MATSUURA Toshiya, GONG Hao, HYAKUMURA Kimihiko, NOMURA Hisako, SOKH Heng, LENG Chivin
  • Organizer: IUFRO 125th Anniversary Congress 2017
  • Int'l Joint Research