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Book Chapter
BC0424-15
TitleGender Roles And Land Use Preferences-Implications To Landscape Restoration In Southeast Asia
AuthorDelia Catacutan and Grace B.Villamor
EditorsIlan Chabay, Martin Frick and Jennifer Helgeson
Year2015
Book TitleLand Restoration: Reclaiming Landscapes for a Sustainable Future
PublisherElsevier
City of PublicationLondon, UK
Number of Pages of the book11
Pages431-440
Call NumberBC0424-15
Abstract:
Land restoration has been proposed to reverse degradation. However, to make land restoration efforts effective, social factors including gender appreciation of land uses must be considered (Villamor et al., 2014a; Ban et al., 2013; Bernard et al., 2014). We argue in this section that the pathway to land restoration is influenced by the way that land is appreciated by multiple direct stakeholders. The diversity of these stakes is an important consideration in efforts to reclaim or restore land. Through three case studies conducted in Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines, we highlight the roles that women play in agriculture and decision making, as well as their choices over land use. We found that contextspecific gender roles and an appreciation of land uses play a role in predicting future changes in landuse and land restoration efforts. Our case study findings are instructive for future land restoration efforts in southeast Asia.
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