Sunderlin et al (2005) Flashcards

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Sunderlin et al

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2005

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2005

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Sunderlin et al

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World Bank, 2001

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2.8 billion people live on less than $2 a day

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Who stated that 2.8 billion people live on less than $2 a day

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World Bank, 2001

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Brosius, 1997; and Poor 1986

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Disappearance of natural forests in developing countries negatively affects the livelihoods of people dependent on forest products and services

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Who states that the disappearance of natural forests in developing countries negatively affects the livelihoods of people dependent on forest products and services

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Brosius, 1997; and Poor 1986

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What should be considered together

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Poverty and loss of forests

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Who receives the impacts of climate change the most

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Developing countries, and the poor within these

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What tend to occupy the same spaces

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Rural poverty and natural forests

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World Bank 2003

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World bank (2003) found that a large amount of poor people live on ‘fragile’ lands including slopes, arid zones, and forest ecosystems

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Who found that a large amount of poor people live on ‘fragile’ lands including slopes, arid zones, and forest ecosystems

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World Bank 2003

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How many people live in forested areas

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240 million people (World Bank, 2003)

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What does the World Bank (2003) consider forests as

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Environmentally fragile lands

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Why do poor people live in forested areas

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Because they live on areas that are relatively untouched by rapidly changing socioeconomic systems

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Who can depend on forests

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Some traditional/indigenous people

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What are forests a refuge for

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The powerless and the poor

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Why is it easy for people to survive in forests and make a livelihood

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Easy access to most forests

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What does the easy access to most forests mean

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It makes it easier for people to survive there and form livelihoods

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ways forests can be used

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hunting, gathering, cultivation, agriculture

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What are the 3 categories of forest-dependent people

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  • Traditinal/indigenous
  • Non traditional but have long lived there
  • People who have been displaced and migrated to forests
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Power of people who live in or near forests

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They tend to be politically weak or powerless

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What reinforces the political weakness of forest-dependent people

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Their geographical distance from urban centres. in these centres political alliances favour forest conservation

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Wunder (2001)

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Bringing together forest conservation and policy is unlikley

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Who argues that bringing together forest conservation and policy is unlikely

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Wunder (2001)

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What has happened over the last several decades

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Incomes have risen and forests have declined

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What is one method to achieve both poverty reduction and forest conservation

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To focus on economic growth as this would reduce poverty, and then over time forest conservation will take place (this has happened in wealthy countries)

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Forest conservation in wealthy countries

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Since 1950 agricultural intensification in Europe and North America has re-conserved 16 million ha of farmlands to forests

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What shouldn’t we assume

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That less developed countries should follow in the footsteps of more developed ones

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What solution does this paper argue for

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Site-level programs and projects

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What do people need to understand

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People need to understand all positive and negative outcomes in terms of forest cover and human well-being