Localized environmental and land use policies, palm oil conversion and deforestation (C10)

• Subject Area: Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Policy, Agricultural Sociology
• Term: from 2018 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 192626868

The goal of this project is to better understand the local policy making process at the level of Indonesian districts and its effects on land use change and deforestation. For this, we construct a countrywide database of time variant and spatialized environmental and land use policies and link these to deforestation dynamics, local elections as well as local economic and firm dynamics, using econometric techniques. We also contribute to the scaling-up of the findings for Jambi province for Indonesia as a whole and measuring the potential ecological costs and economic benefits of palm oil conversion.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 990: Ecological and Socioeconomic Functions of Tropical Lowland Rainforest Transformation Systems (Sumatra, Indonesia)
• Applicant Institution: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
• Project Head: Professorin Dr. Krisztina Kis-Katos