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    <pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 01:54:37 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Explaining the recent reduction of Indonesia's deforestation</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/311679</link>
      <description>Title: Explaining the recent reduction of Indonesia's deforestation
Authors: Angelsen, Arild; Dermawan, Ahmad; Ladewig, Malte
Abstract: Deforestation in Indonesia has declined sharply since 2015-2016. We use a combination of spatial land use change data, interviews with stakeholders and statistical analysis to explain this reduction. The exact extent of the reduction in deforestation depends on the data set used, and the years or time periods compared, varying between 40% and 90%. A robust estimate is that deforestation has fallen by at least 50% since ca. 2016. The decline is uneven across islands and provinces. The two main "deforestation islands" Kalimantan and Sumatra experienced a major decline, with a relatively larger decline in the former. The provinces with the largest absolute decline were Riau, South Sumatra and Central Kalimantan, followed by West and East Kalimantan. In terms of commodities driving deforestation ("direct drivers"), palm oil is still the most important commodity (46% for 2018-2022, according to MapBiomas Indonesia data, compared to 55% for the period 2010-2017). Pulp is on the rise as a deforestation driver, particularly in Kalimantan. In the three high deforestation provinces on that island, the demand for pulp was behind almost 1/3 of the natural forest conversion in 2022. Mining for coal and valuable minerals such as nickel is also on the rise, with MBI data suggesting its share of national deforestation being 5.4% (2021-2022), compared to less than one (0.9%) for the 2010-2017 period. Mining is particularly important in Sulawesi, where it according to one estimate accounted for 30% of the deforestation in 2021-2022. Five hypotheses are put forward to explain the reduction, related to public policies, private (corporate) policies, civil society pressure, commodity prices, and forest scarcity. (...) While we conclude that all five hypotheses put forward are relevant to explain the recent decline in deforestation, we tentative conclude that public polices - in combination with a forest transition (scarcity) effect - has been the most important factors. Private policies show more mixed results. Behind the public and private policy changes, civil society has played a key role in policy reforms and in promoting more effective implementation though its watchdog role. Non-increasing agricultural commodity prices have made the implementation of forest conservation policies less costly. Deforestation is still a profitable activity for land users and (sub)national governments, and forest conservation is a continuous battle, with future challenges emerging: the effectiveness of current policies may weakened over time, political priorities may change, prices of deforestation-risk commodities may rise, and the composition of direct drivers change - requiring a shift in the policy focus.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Centre for Land Tenure Studies 2024 Annual Report</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/322256</link>
      <description>Title: Centre for Land Tenure Studies 2024 Annual Report
Editors: Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) - Centre for Land Tenure Studies (CLTS)
Abstract: The Centre for Land Tenure Studies (CLTS) published 38 peer-reviewed journal articles, 4 books, 7 working papers and three (3) reports. The published journals covered issues around education and disability, access to seeds, climate shocks and the climate dilemma, climate response behaviour, resource management, ecology, land acquisition and consolidation, valuation of land, housing markets, spatial urban planning, land laws, cadastral development, safe flood routes, grazing, deforestation, common pool resources, and political forest. Since the most published papers are first published as working papers, the research areas are similar. Additional topics in working papers include understanding behavioral response of resource poor households, students and farmers. The published reports included a pre-analysis plan for the research work in Malawi. CLTS members also participated in several conferences to disseminate the research work. The CLTS working papers and reports are accessible through the CLTS webpage, the Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics (S-WoPEc), the library (Brage) of the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), the Land Portal webpage (see: https://landportal.org/organization/centre-land-tenure-studies) and Econstor (see: https://www.econstor.eu/handle/10419/242695). Statistics on visibility show that, over the months, abstract views ranged between 20 and 50 while downloads of the papers ranged from 5 to 20 papers across the months. This is on average lower that the statistics in 2023. The statistics on impact factor show that the current recursive impact factor for the CLTS page is 0.11 with an h-index of 8. The 10-year impact factor for the CLTS is 0.08 and the h-index is 4. The faculties working on CLTS-related work also reported several activities. The School of Economics and Business was involved in several projects supported by the Research Council of Norway and NORAD (NORHED II). In LANDSAM, the Department of Property and Law is involved in projects focusing on (1) the Planning and Building Act between demand, land policy and sustainability, (2) collaboration for improved participation in spatial planning, and (3) didactics in spatial planning. Again, under LANDSAM, Noragric and Byreg departments collaborated on an NFR research application focusing on sustainable recreation around the Oslo Fjord. In MINA, the Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management worked on a collaborative project that represents a multidisciplinary approach to diagnosing and improving policy and management decisions for dry forestland and resources in the face of climate change. Two PhD students have contributed to the project, with one working since August 2021 and the other from August 2021 to May 2023. In addition, a postdoctoral researcher has been involved since March 2023, alongside a visiting researcher who joined in September 2023.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Reading notes on property rights and institutions</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/300302</link>
      <description>Title: Reading notes on property rights and institutions
Authors: Berge, Erling
Abstract: The present work is a collection of essays. The first one is new, written for the collection. Then follows 7 separate essays of varying age. They are named * On the classifications of property rights * A property rights perspective on institutional change in the welfare state * On the nature of welfare goods * Privatization and the nature of welfare goods * On the regulation of professions * On the assessment of property rights systems * Property rights theory and sustainable resource utilization They are all concerned with the nature of property rights and how this helps us understand various aspects of the Norwegian welfare state</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Changing patterns of land access, inheritance and emerging female village headpersons in a patriarchal society among the Tumbuka in Northern Malawi</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/300301</link>
      <description>Title: Changing patterns of land access, inheritance and emerging female village headpersons in a patriarchal society among the Tumbuka in Northern Malawi
Authors: Munthali, Alister C.; Berge, Erling; Khaila, Stanley; Kambewa, Daimon; Wiig, Henrik
Abstract: The Tumbuka are normally described as patrilineal where inheritance of property including land, cattle and village headmanship is from father to son. There is evidence that initially the Tumbuka were matrilineal. In this society, village heads are normally men, and land and other property are owned and inherited by men. However, there is an emergence of female village headpersons in this patrilineal society. This paper, using data from the Malawi Land Tenure and Social Capital (MLTSC) project, examines the factors that have led to this change and implications for residence at marriage. The study found that female village headpersons are largely single and that they are also chosen because there is no son or eligible male in the lineage to inherit the village headmanship. In terms of land inheritance, although land is largely inherited by sons, there is evidence from the data that in cases where there are no sons land can be inherited by daughters. Daughters also have access to land if they are divorced and they return to their natal villages. While inheritance rules exist, this paper shows that they are not as rigid.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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