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Fire in East Kalimantan: a panoply of practices, views and (discouraging) effects
No full textThis paper describes 1999 research intended to shed light on the causes and effects of the devastating 1997-98 forest fires in East Kalimantan. The author visited six communities and interviewed representatives of several other stakeholders (oil palm plantations, industrial timber plantations, timber companies, local government officials) about the causes and effects of the fires. She describes the traditional fire management techniques known by the Kenyah (a dayak group) in several locations. The fires varied considerably in intensity and damage done, among the communities. But some sustained very severe damage to their environment and suffered serious health consequences (both physical and psychological). The paper concludes by estimating the relevance of ten propositions relating to the likelihood of fire danger to each of the six villages visited
Revisiting gender and forestry in Long Segar, East Kalimantan, Indonesia: oil palm and divided aspirations
No full textDramatic and devastating changes in East Kalimantan's forest landscape over recent decades reflect the impact of intensified resource extraction through timber concessions, transmigration settlement and the expansion of agri-business, including oil palm. This chapter revisits a Dayak community that was subject to extensive ethnographic fieldwork in the 1980s to examine the gendered impacts of oil palm expansion. Findings show that whilst some aspects of gender norms remain resilient (e.g. women's responsibility for rice cultivation), oil palm has opened up substantial differences between those able to capitalize on the oil palm boom, and those for whom oil palm constitutes a signficant threat. Changes associated with oil palm in Long Segar reflect the interplay between resource histories, gender, class, generation and ethnicity, opening up divisions in a once relatively egalitarian forest-based community
Ten propositions to explain Kalimantan's fires
No full textThis short paper summarizes the conclusions of a 1999 investigation into the causes of fires in six communities in East Kalimantan. Drawing on the author’s long term experience with the Kenyah (inhabitants of five of the communities), perceived causes of the fires in these six locations were documented. Ten propositions relating to fire causes are listed here, as a preliminary step in the development of a typology of causes of fire. The first three general propositions relate to environmental conditions like drought, to human conditions like the response time required to adapt to environmental change, and to political conditions like corrupt and uncoordinated governance. Five propositions revolve around the conditions that evolve when multiple actors with different values, patterns of behaviour, and access to resources are thrown together. The final two propositions relate to economic issues (potential for gain and need). The paper concludes with a simple scoring system that may contribute to identifying fire-prone communities in the future, and to developing appropriate solutions to the relevant fire causes
From understanding to action: building on anthropological approaches to influence policymaking
No full textWomen and forests: does their involvement matter?
No full textThis brief article documents author's reasons for considering the answer to be "yes." She draws first on her extensive ethnographic experience in forest communities in the US and in several forested areas of Indonesia, with examples. Her second source of conviction in this view comes from her involvement in a comparative study of criteria and indicators in Africa, Asia and South America, in which she visited many forested areas around the world. Her third source comes from her own theoretical analysis, showing the links among health, women's income/production, education, status, and natural increase. She argues that the well being of women, and others, depends on good forest management, and vice versa
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