Geographical poverty traps and community-based conservation and development in tropical forests: endogenizing the role of community location

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23243045
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Economic policy
• Research Institution: University of Tsukuba
• Principal Investigator: TAKASAKI Yoshito 筑波大学, 人文社会系, 教授 (00334029)
• Research Collaborator: COOMES Oliver T. マクギル大学, 地理学部, 教授 ; ABIZAID Christian トロント大学, 地理学部, 助教授 ; ARROYO Pablo トロント大学, GIS センター, センター長 ; KALACSKA Margaret マクギル大学, 地理学部, 准教授
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 開発経済学 / 農村 / 貧困 / 熱帯雨林

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study conducted community census in 4 sub-basins in the Peruvian Amazon (n=919). The data collected are totally new in terms of geographical scale, sampling, and contents. First, we constructed GIS data for community location and various community characteristics. Second, we compared different community-data collection methods, deriving new methodological insights. Third, we developed measurements for community-level biological resources (animals, fishing, and timber) and showed their spatial distributions and changes through time. Fourth, we showed the structure of community-level social networks for soccer, planting material, and cooperative labor and their special configuration. Fifth, in response to the evaluation of community-data collection methods, we altered our research design/plan and restructured the research project as an extended new project. We designed community/household surveys conducted in the new project and developed community questionnaires.

Free Research Field

開発経済学、資源経済学