Towards more sustainable land use in lowland tropical regions
Hypotheses:
Hypothesis 1
Integrating information from Project Groups A, B and C has substantial implications for reconciling ecological and socioeconomic needs in Sumatran lowlands towards more sustainable land use and landscapes.
Hypothesis 2
Local, national, and international policies that are targeting sustainability of land-use systems can have unintended consequences on land-use change and on ecological and socioeconomic functions. Such unintended consequences of policies increase with ecological and socioeconomic heterogeneity and with the targeted scale of the policy interventions.
Hypothesis 3
Improved policy measures are possible, if (a) heterogeneous relations between ecological and socio-economic functions at different scales inform the design of prospective policies, and (b) acceptance of local stakeholders and stakeholders from outside are integrated in a participative process from the early design onwards.
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