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Western Ghats Sentinel Landscapes (World Agroforestry Centre)
Agroforestry systems (coffee, tea, rubber, pepper, arecanut, cardamom) shape much of Western Ghats in India. Commercial agriculture in this area has existed for centuries. Now, these commercial crops reach the margins of protected areas. In many cases, the only forests left are small sections which are either community-managed (i.e. sacred forests) or privately owned.
We propose an Sentinel Landscape located in the central section of the mountain range, from Goa to the Palakkad Gap, spanning across Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. All the ecosystem services in the intended areas express different spatial scales in different landscape contexts. Understanding the dynamics between tree cover, biodiversity and the variety of ecosystem services is a predominant issue in such landscapes.
One major undertaking will be to include 'dis-services' in the equation. We cannot fully understand the relationship between people and forests without incorporating what the costs of living in close proximity to forest entails: crop loss to wildlife, transmission of diseases, insecurity, etc. Resolving economic and environmental trade-offs is similarly important, and a scientifically and politically informed framework to understand the trade-offs between services and between stakeholders, and the imbalance between actors can help define the outcomes of proposed policies of natural resources management.
Site selection:
1. Kodagu
2. Chamarajanagar
3. Wayanad
4. Nilgiris
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Comma Separated Values - 3.9 MB - MD5: 0931691267109d8daaf9327026196def
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Raw data that was collected using ODK in the Western Ghats SL.
Tab-Delimited - 6.3 MB - MD5: 953b33e314f0273894f6166e5a01d9e8
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Cleaned and verified household data for the Western Ghats SL.
Tab-Delimited - 188.7 KB - MD5: 0a1d694fffae52a9d3fc7822a41e1007
DataIndicators
Calculated livelihood indicators for the Western Ghats SL.
Tab-Delimited - 3.3 KB - MD5: 0492b58b820d426cdac598fd523a4458
IndicatorsVariables Description
Description of variables that have been generated in the livelihood indicators.
Plain Text - 202.3 KB - MD5: 4ca25aa291712780b8d81b3b40631c71
CodeIndicators
R script used for the calculation of the livelihood indicators.
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Western Ghats Indicator Guide
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DocumentationVariables Description
Description of variables for the household data.
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The Land Degradation Surveillance Framework (LDSF) is designed to provide a biophysical baseline at landscape level, and a monitoring and evaluation framework for assessing processes of land degradation and the effectiveness of rehabilitation measures (recovery) over time. This f...
Comma Separated Values - 146.5 KB - MD5: 19b7560b47196bf543e4a891ce082db0
Raw LDSF data downloaded from the gps units for Amrutha site.
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