Water scarcity and oil palm expansion: social views and environmental processes

Water scarcity and oil palm expansion: social views and environmental processes

Conversions of natural ecosystems, e.g., from rain forests to managed plantations, result in significant changes in the hydrological cycle including periodic water scarcity. In Indonesia, large areas of forest were lost and extensive oil palm plantations were established over the last decades. We co...

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Main Authors: Jennifer Merten, Alexander Röll, Thomas Guillaume, Ana Meijide, Suria Tarigan, Herdhata Agusta, Claudia Dislich, Christoph Dittrich, Heiko Faust, Dodo Gunawan, Jonas Hein, Hendrayanto, Alexander Knohl, Yakov Kuzyakov, Kerstin Wiegand, Dirk Hölscher
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2016-06-01
Series:Ecology and Society
Subjects:
eco-hydrology
environmental perception
erosion
evapotranspiration
forest
land-use change
runoff
rural water supply
streamflow
transpiration
Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol21/iss2/art5/

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http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol21/iss2/art5/

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