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Differences in Power Structures Regarding Access to Natural Resources at the Village Level in Central Sulawesi (Indonesia)

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dc.contributor.author Koch, Sebastian en_US
dc.contributor.author Faust, Heiko en_US
dc.contributor.author Barkmann, Jan en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-07-31T14:55:55Z
dc.date.available 2009-07-31T14:55:55Z
dc.date.issued 2008 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2009-05-27 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2009-05-27 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/2983
dc.description.abstract "The mountain forests of the Indonesian province of Central Sulawesi include core areas of the global Wallacea biodiversity hotspot. Remote sensing data indicated that deforestation rates around Central Sulawesi's Lore-Lindu National Park differ more strongly between villages than could be explained by differences in the individual characteristics of the village households as assessed by quantitative village censuses. This setting provided the background for a study into inter-village differences in power structures regarding access to natural resources. Our results are abstracted from 3*10 semi-structured, qualitative interviews with key informants from the leading groups of autochthonous and migrant households of three contrasting villages. In village A, nearly feudal power relationships are exerted by a group of local first settler families that dominate formal village leadership as well as the influential Council of Traditional Leaders (Lembaga Adat), and that restrict deforestation and land transactions. No such institutional restrictions exist in village C. Traditional power relationships are replaced by economic power based on petty capitalist type production of the international agricultural commodity cocoa. Deforestation is muchhigher in village C. In village B, traditional institutions and power structures still appear in place although land transactions are less restricted than in village A, resulting also in high deforestation rates. While contrasting problematic social effects, our study highlights the potential efficacy of traditional institutions in the regulation of access to resources." en_US
dc.subject deforestation en_US
dc.subject common pool resources en_US
dc.subject resource management en_US
dc.subject indigenous institutions en_US
dc.title Differences in Power Structures Regarding Access to Natural Resources at the Village Level in Central Sulawesi (Indonesia) en_US
dc.type Journal Article en_US
dc.type.published published en_US
dc.coverage.region East Asia en_US
dc.coverage.country Indonesia en_US
dc.subject.sector Forestry en_US
dc.identifier.citationjournal Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, en_US
dc.identifier.citationvolume 1 en_US
dc.identifier.citationnumber 2 en_US
dc.identifier.citationmonth January en_US


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