Flooding and land use change in Jambi Province, Sumatra: integrating local knowledge and scientific inquiry

Flooding and land use change in Jambi Province, Sumatra: integrating local knowledge and scientific inquiry

The rapid expansion of rubber and oil palm plantations in Jambi Province, Sumatra, Indonesia, is associated with large-scale deforestation and the impairment of many ecosystem services. According to villagers' observations, this land use change has, together with climate change, led to an incre...

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Main Authors: Jennifer Merten, Christian Stiegler, Nina Hennings, Edwine S. Purnama, Alexander Röll, Herdhata Agusta, Michaela A. Dippold, Lutz Fehrmann, Dodo Gunawan, Dirk Hölscher, Alexander Knohl, Johanna Kückes, Fenna Otten, Delphine C. Zemp, Heiko Faust
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2020-09-01
Series:Ecology and Society
Subjects:
ecohydrology
flooding
global change
indonesia
interdisciplinary analysis
land use conversion
local ecological knowledge
oil palm
rubber
Online Access:https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol25/iss3/art14/

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