Rural Flashcards
What are the positive social impacts of RLD?
- New roads allow people to move more freely.
- Large Scale Farming brings food into the rainforest
- Developments could create jobs for locals
- Profits from selling resources can be used to improve quality of life.
What are the negative social impacts of RLD?
- Conflict between locals and developers
- People are forced to migrate into urban areas
- Increased risk of “Western Diseases” such as the cold of flu.
- Native people can lose homes, land and culture such as the Yanomami Tribe
What are the positive environmental impacts of RLD?
- There is now an increased awareness due to discussions around the loss of biodiversity
What are the negative environmental impacts of RLD?
- Habitat + Plant loss such as the Jaguar
- The loss of a Carbon Sink = Climate Change
- Deforestation reduces evapotranspiration = less cloud + rainfall
- Lagging leaves soil vulnerable to leaching.
What are the negative economic impacts of RLD?
- In the long term, deforestation and depletion of natural resources, can leave the country with little to seek to boost income.
What are the positive economic impacts of RLD?
- Money can be made from selling the resources.
- The development could create jobs for locals.
What is Agro-Forestry as a management strategy to reduce the impact of RLD?
- This is the practice of growing trees + crops at the same time.
- By doing this, farmers can use tree canopies as shelter for their crops.
- This helps prevent soil erosion + rain splash erosion.
- Soil will also benefit from dead organic matter that falls from trees.
What is Sustainable Logging as a management strategy to reduce the impact of RLD?
- By being more selective and felling trees only when they reach a particular height, young trees could be given a guaranteed lifespan.
- Rainforest trees reach maturity between 40-60 years. This means the canopy + structure of the forest remains + the forest is able to regenerate and become sustainable.
What is Afforestation as a management strategy to reduce the impact of RLD?
- As the producing developing countries achieve higher levels of development, such projects will become self funded.
- Until then, developed world may consider this to be a worthy act in the face of Climate Change + resource sustainability .
What is Eco Tourism as a management strategy to reduce the impact of RLD?
- Responsible travel to natural areas which conserves the environment and sustains the livelihood of locals.
- Good Eco-Tourism benefits the local economy, does not harm the environment + can be combined with research + educational benefits.
What is Education as a management strategy to reduce the impact of RLD?
- To ensure that those involved with the exploitation + management of the forest understand the consequences behind their actions.
- More campaigns are needed to educate people about the destruction caused by logging.
What is Reducing Global Demand as a management strategy to reduce the impact of RLD?
- In the west, we continue to buy hard-wood furniture.
- If there was no demand for teach, ebony and mahogany then there would be no need to cut down trees.
- We can take action on this by banning the import of such timber or charging high tax.
What is Regulation and Protection as a management strategy to reduce the impact of RLD? (1)
- Many rainforests have environmental laws.
- However, it’s often difficult to enforce when taking into consolation the vast areas of scattered and sparse population.
What is Regulation and Protection as a management strategy to reduce the impact of RLD? (2)
- Brazil has set up a vast National Park and Nature Reserve to protect it’s rainforests.
- The Central Amazon conservation complex is a UNESCO World Heritage Site with restricted entry.
- This means damaging activities can be monitored and prevented.
- Local people can also be employed.
What is Illegal Logging as a management strategy to reduce the impact of RLD? (1)
- In order to manage illegal logging, laws must be created such as the 2008 Lacey Act in America that combats the trafficking in illegal plants and wildlife.
- There has been an introduction of barcoding all timber in order to make sure it can be validated as eco friendly or sustainable.
What is Illegal Logging as a management strategy to reduce the impact of RLD? (2)
- Satellite Technology and photography can be used to check and monitor activity, but not all countries have money for this.
- Amazonians are using Google Earth, GPS and mapping to protect their dwindling bases.
What is the Reduction of Debt and Poverty as a management strategy to reduce the impact of RLD? (1)
- Many of our rainforests are in developing countries such as Nigeria or Vietnam.
- A large number of these countries rely on logging and commercial farming as their main source of income which will help reduce their debt to other countries and organisations such as the World Bank.
What is the Reduction of Debt and Poverty as a management strategy to reduce the impact of RLD? (2)
- Therefore one solution to this is to cancel all debts, but no guarantee is given that this money would be used to conserve and protect the rainforests.
