Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Kakenhi)
"Mechanism of Land Use Changes in Mainland Southeast Asia: Field Work-based
Remote Sensing Analyses"
Project Leader: KONO, Yasuyuki
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- Outline
- Environmental conservation and poverty mitigation are, in theory, supposed
to be two wheels of rural development. Environmental conservation programs
enrich natural resources such as land, water and forest which provide basis
of the livelihood system of rural population. Poverty mitigation programs
upgrade rural economy to prevent misuse of natural resources and to promote
their sustainable management.
- What is actually going on, however, at rural areas of Mainland Southeast
Asia is something different from what the theory teaches us. Environmental
conservation and poverty mitigation are confronting, particularly on land
use. Land is the common resources both for environmental conservation and
poverty mitigation. We need land for bio-diversity conservation and water
harvesting, and also for subsistence farming and cash income generation
activities. Scarcity of land resources makes synthesizing environmental
conservation and poverty mitigation difficult.
- The present project aims at reviewing the long-term changing process of
land use, reconsidering the mechanism behind the scarcity of land resources
and to proposing the feasible synthesis of environmental conservation and
poverty mitigation.
- We focus on the village-level land use changes at selected sites in Vietnam,
Laos and Yunnan province, China, in order to identify changes in land use
precisely and to relate them to socio-economic events. Major materials
to identify land use changes are aero photos, high-resolution satellite
images, and gaiho-zu, maps published by the Japanese army mainly in the
1940s and collected by CSEAS. These images are interpreted based on the
information collected through field survey.
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