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Droughts and deforestation: Does seasonality matter?
Extreme weather events, particularly droughts, have strong impacts on the livelihoods of populations in rural areas. In a context of low access to insurance and credit markets, households respond to such shocks by implementing different risk-management strategies, which in turn are likely to have an...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9612518/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36301898 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0276667 |
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author | Vaglietti, Giuliaz Delacote, Philippe Leblois, Antoine |
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description | Extreme weather events, particularly droughts, have strong impacts on the livelihoods of populations in rural areas. In a context of low access to insurance and credit markets, households respond to such shocks by implementing different risk-management strategies, which in turn are likely to have an impact on the environment, in particular through land-use changes and deforestation. This paper contributes to the emerging literature on the links between droughts and deforestation: (1) distinguishing responses to previously experienced droughts versus current droughts, and (2) disentangling the time of the agricultural season at which droughts occur. We show that deforestation declines whenever a drought occurs during the growing season, while it increases whenever a drought occurs during the harvesting season. These impacts are mitigated within protected areas and are exacerbated in more accessible locations, i.e., areas within 4 hours of travel time of main/major cities. By contrast, deforestation outcomes following droughts that occur during the planting season depend on whether the crop considered is maize or cassava. |
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spelling | pubmed-96125182022-10-28 Droughts and deforestation: Does seasonality matter? Vaglietti, Giuliaz Delacote, Philippe Leblois, Antoine PLoS One Research Article Extreme weather events, particularly droughts, have strong impacts on the livelihoods of populations in rural areas. In a context of low access to insurance and credit markets, households respond to such shocks by implementing different risk-management strategies, which in turn are likely to have an impact on the environment, in particular through land-use changes and deforestation. This paper contributes to the emerging literature on the links between droughts and deforestation: (1) distinguishing responses to previously experienced droughts versus current droughts, and (2) disentangling the time of the agricultural season at which droughts occur. We show that deforestation declines whenever a drought occurs during the growing season, while it increases whenever a drought occurs during the harvesting season. These impacts are mitigated within protected areas and are exacerbated in more accessible locations, i.e., areas within 4 hours of travel time of main/major cities. By contrast, deforestation outcomes following droughts that occur during the planting season depend on whether the crop considered is maize or cassava. Public Library of Science 2022-10-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9612518/ /pubmed/36301898 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0276667 Text en © 2022 Vaglietti et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Vaglietti, Giuliaz Delacote, Philippe Leblois, Antoine Droughts and deforestation: Does seasonality matter? |
title | Droughts and deforestation: Does seasonality matter? |
title_full | Droughts and deforestation: Does seasonality matter? |
title_fullStr | Droughts and deforestation: Does seasonality matter? |
title_full_unstemmed | Droughts and deforestation: Does seasonality matter? |
title_short | Droughts and deforestation: Does seasonality matter? |
title_sort | droughts and deforestation: does seasonality matter? |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9612518/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36301898 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0276667 |
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