Impact of Indonesia's Forest Management Units on the reduction of forest loss and forest fires in Sulawesi

IF 6.6 2区经济学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2024-10-16 DOI:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108418

Colas Chervier , Stibniati S. Atmadja , Sandy Nofyanza , Choiriatun Nur Annisa , Fitri Nurfatriani , Rochadi Kristiningrum , Muhammad Alif K. Sahide , Ali Suhardiman , Syukur Umar

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Abstract

The establishment of Forest Management Units (Kesatuan Pengelolaan Hutan/ KPH) represents one of Indonesia's most significant forest governance reforms, covering the 120 million hectares of designated Forest Areas. Sharing features with the Landscape Approach, KPHs are expected to reduce deforestation and forest degradation through improved forest planning, oversight, open access avoidance, and fire prevention and response. This paper assesses the impact of KPHs on the reduction of forest loss, including forest loss due to fire, and the factors that influence this impact (e.g. KPH's primary objective, deforestation risk). We use remotely sensed data to estimate difference-in-differences models accounting for differences in baseline characteristics and multiple time periods. Our case study, Sulawesi Island, is primarily shaped by smallholder farmer land use, where KPHs can exert significant influence. We do not find evidence of an overall effect of KPHs on deforestation. However, we observe intriguing heterogeneous effects depending on the year, including significantly less deforestation in already-established KPHs during the El Niño years of 2015–16, and a notable impact on the reduction of forest loss due to fire in some early-established KPHs. These findings warrant further investigation.

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印度尼西亚森林管理单位对减少苏拉威西岛森林损失和森林火灾的影响

森林管理单位（Kesatuan Pengelolaan Hutan/ KPH）的建立是印度尼西亚最重要的森林治理改革之一，覆盖了 1.2 亿公顷的指定林区。KPH 与景观方法具有相同的特点，预计将通过改进森林规划、监督、避免开放获取以及火灾预防和应对来减少森林砍伐和森林退化。本文评估了 KPH 对减少森林损失（包括火灾造成的森林损失）的影响，以及影响这种影响的因素（如 KPH 的主要目标、毁林风险）。我们利用遥感数据来估算差异模型，并考虑基线特征和多个时间段的差异。我们的案例研究--苏拉威西岛--主要由小农户的土地使用情况决定，KPH 可在此发挥重要影响。我们没有发现 KPHs 对森林砍伐有整体影响的证据。但是，我们观察到了不同年份的不同影响，包括在 2015-16 年厄尔尼诺年期间，已经建立的 KPHs 的森林砍伐明显减少，以及在一些早期建立的 KPHs 中，对减少火灾造成的森林损失产生了显著影响。这些发现值得进一步研究。

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Ecological Economics 环境科学-环境科学

CiteScore

12.00

自引率

5.70%

发文量

313

审稿时长

6 months

期刊介绍： Ecological Economics is concerned with extending and integrating the understanding of the interfaces and interplay between "nature''s household" (ecosystems) and "humanity''s household" (the economy). Ecological economics is an interdisciplinary field defined by a set of concrete problems or challenges related to governing economic activity in a way that promotes human well-being, sustainability, and justice. The journal thus emphasizes critical work that draws on and integrates elements of ecological science, economics, and the analysis of values, behaviors, cultural practices, institutional structures, and societal dynamics. The journal is transdisciplinary in spirit and methodologically open, drawing on the insights offered by a variety of intellectual traditions, and appealing to a diverse readership. Specific research areas covered include: valuation of natural resources, sustainable agriculture and development, ecologically integrated technology, integrated ecologic-economic modelling at scales from local to regional to global, implications of thermodynamics for economics and ecology, renewable resource management and conservation, critical assessments of the basic assumptions underlying current economic and ecological paradigms and the implications of alternative assumptions, economic and ecological consequences of genetically engineered organisms, and gene pool inventory and management, alternative principles for valuing natural wealth, integrating natural resources and environmental services into national income and wealth accounts, methods of implementing efficient environmental policies, case studies of economic-ecologic conflict or harmony, etc. New issues in this area are rapidly emerging and will find a ready forum in Ecological Economics.