How Land Concessions Affect Places Elsewhere: Telecoupling, Political Ecology, and Large-Scale Plantations in Southern Laos and Northeastern Cambodia
How Land Concessions Affect Places Elsewhere: Telecoupling, Political Ecology, and Large-Scale Plantations in Southern Laos and Northeastern Cambodia
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DOI：
10.3390/land4020436
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发表时间：
2015-06-01
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影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Fox, Jefferson
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作者：
Baird, Ian G.;Fox, Jefferson
在过去十年中，对老挝和柬埔寨种植园大规模经济土地特许权的发展和影响进行了大量研究。这些研究从不同方面说明，特许权常常对当地人民和环境造成严重的负面影响，往往导致地貌和生计的急剧变化。尽管这项研究很重要，但这些研究主要侧重于与投资者获得土地有关的“圈地”过程的直接影响。在这项研究中，我们采取不同的方法，调查大规模的土地特许权在老挝南部和柬埔寨东北部的实际特许权区以外的地方，无论是在国家的特许权所在地和超越的影响。这些联系被称为“远距联系”或“远距耦合”，采用“远距耦合”的方法，使我们能够集中注意一个地点的土地利用变化与附近或远处的其他地方的土地利用变化之间的特殊关系，这是大规模种植园开发的结果，无论是在种植园开发的早期阶段，还是在种植园生产的后期。它还提供了通过政治生态学（PE）参与土地变化科学（LCS）的机会。
Over the last decade considerable research has been conducted on the development and the impacts of large-scale economic land concessions for plantations in Laos and Cambodia. These studies have variously illustrated that concessions frequently result in serious negative impacts on local people and the environment, often leading to dramatic transformations of landscapes and livelihoods. As important as this research has been, these studies have largely focused on the immediate impacts of the "enclosure" process associated with gaining access to land by investors. In this study we take a different approach, investigating the implications of large-scale land concessions in southern Laos and northeastern Cambodia with regard to places outside of actual concession areas, both within the countries where the concessions are located and beyond. These links have been referred to as "teleconnections" or "telecoupling", and adopting a "telecoupling" approach allows us to focus on particular relations between land-use change in one location and land-use change elsewhere, either nearby or distant, as the result of large-scale plantation development, both during the early plantation development period, and later when plantations are productive. It also provides opportunities to engage with Land Change Science (LCS) through Political Ecology (PE).