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- By Ghazi Al-Rawas, Vazken Andréassian, Tianqi Ao, Stacey A. Archfield, Berit Arheimer, András Bárdossy, Trent Biggs, Günter Blöschl, Theresa Blume, Marco Borga, Helge Bormann, Gianluca Botter, Tom Brown, Donald H. Burn, Sean K. Carey, Attilio Castellarin, Francis Chiew, François Colin, Paulin Coulibaly, Armand Crabit, Barry Croke, Siegfried Demuth, Qingyun Duan, Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Thomas Dunne, Ying Fan, Xing Fang, Boris Gartsman, Alexander Gelfan, Mikhail Georgievski, Nick van de Giesen, David C. Goodrich, Hoshin V. Gupta, Khaled Haddad, David M. Hannah, H. A. P. Hapuarachchi, Hege Hisdal, Kamila Hlavčová, Markus Hrachowitz, Denis A. Hughes, Günter Humer, Ruud Hurkmans, Vito Iacobellis, Elena Ilyichyova, Hiroshi Ishidaira, Graham Jewitt, Shaofeng Jia, Jeffrey R. Kennedy, Anthony S. Kiem, Robert Kirnbauer, Thomas R. Kjeldsen, Jürgen Komma, Leonid M. Korytny, Charles N. Kroll, George Kuczera, Gregor Laaha, Henny A. J. van Lanen, Hjalmar Laudon, Jens Liebe, Shijun Lin, Göran Lindström, Suxia Liu, Jun Magome, Danny G. Marks, Dominic Mazvimavi, Jeffrey J. McDonnell, Brian L. McGlynn, Kevin J. McGuire, Neil McIntyre, Thomas A. McMahon, Ralf Merz, Robert A. Metcalfe, Alberto Montanari, David Morris, Roger Moussa, Lakshman Nandagiri, Thomas Nester, Taha B. M. J. Ouarda, Ludovic Oudin, Juraj Parajka, Charles S. Pearson, Murray C. Peel, Charles Perrin, John W. Pomeroy, David A. Post, Ataur Rahman, Liliang Ren, Magdalena Rogger, Dan Rosbjerg, José Luis Salinas, Jos Samuel, Eric Sauquet, Hubert H. G. Savenije, Takahiro Sayama, John C. Schaake, Kevin Shook, Murugesu Sivapalan, Jon Olav Skøien, Chris Soulsby, Christopher Spence, R. ‘Sri’ Srikanthan, Tammo S. Steenhuis, Jan Szolgay, Yasuto Tachikawa, Kuniyoshi Takeuchi, Lena M. Tallaksen, Dörthe Tetzlaff, Sally E. Thompson, Elena Toth, Peter A. Troch, Remko Uijlenhoet, Carl L. Unkrich, Alberto Viglione, Neil R. Viney, Richard M. Vogel, Thorsten Wagener, M. Todd Walter, Guoqiang Wang, Markus Weiler, Rolf Weingartner, Erwin Weinmann, Hessel Winsemius, Ross A. Woods, Dawen Yang, Chihiro Yoshimura, Andy Young, Gordon Young, Erwin Zehe, Yongqiang Zhang, Maichun C. Zhou
- Edited by Günter Blöschl, Technische Universität Wien, Austria, Murugesu Sivapalan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Thorsten Wagener, University of Bristol, Alberto Viglione, Technische Universität Wien, Austria, Hubert Savenije, Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands
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- Runoff Prediction in Ungauged Basins
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10 - Changing Land Use in the Golden Triangle: Where the Rubber Meets the Road
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- By Maite Guardiola-Claramonte, University of Arizona, Jefferson M. Fox, East-West Center, Thomas W. Giambelluca, University of Hawaiʿi at Mānoa, Peter A. Troch, University of Arizona
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- Sustainability Science for Watershed Landscapes
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- ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute
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- 21 October 2015
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Summary
ABSTRACT
Land use and land cover change in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia (MMSEA) is changing dramatically as shifting cultivation gives way to commercial agriculture driven by domestic demand and regional trade agreements. In Xishuangbanna, China, both owners of semi-privatised state farms and minority farmers are planting rubber at rates that threaten to transform landscapes, with elevations of between 300 m and even above 1,000 m, into an unbroken carpet of rubber. While it has become apparent that this region is on the cusp of major changes in tree cover, there is much uncertainty about the direction of change and the sustainability of this land use in terms of people's livelihoods and environmental variables such as biodiversity, carbon sequestration, watershed hydrology, and climate.
This paper explores the hydrological sustainability of this land-cover change at the basin scale, showing the importance of science for a sustainable water resources management policy. Observations in the study basin showed that water is an important and needed resource of rubber especially during the driest and hottest season. These results were not observed in native vegetation. This could also have negative large-scale implications on available local and regional water resources that need to be considered before launching land management policies.
INTRODUCTION
Montane Mainland Southeast Asia (MMSEA) is a large, ecologically vital region comprising approximately half the land area of Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, and China's Yunnan Province (Figure 10.1). It is a region of great biological and cultural diversity that has come under close scrutiny in the last several decades as a result of both real and perceived deforestation, land degradation, and most recently, conversion of land from traditional agriculture, including shifting cultivation, to more permanent cash crops which are driven by regional and global markets (Fox and Vogler 2005).