Overview of CIPEC Methods
By linking local and regional to national and global levels, CIPEC seeks
to explain changes in forest cover in the Western Hemisphere. As part of
the agenda of the Human Dimensions of Global Change, CIPEC's primary research
questions are:
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How are regional and global political and economic processes
linked to human behaviors at household and community levels?
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How can macro-scale physical and biological processes observed
and modeled at a global scale be linked to meso and micro human organizational
and decision-making processes?
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How do institutional arrangements influence the direction
and size of the impact of human driving forces, such as population density
and transportation networks, on ecosystems and global change?
To address these questions, CIPEC collects information on social and cultural
factors, demographic patterns, institutional arrangements, and political
and economic factors. This data is integrated and analyzed with remotely
sensed images and ecological studies of forest environments. Through
the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and statistical models,
CIPEC aims to provide comprehensive, multi-disciplinary explanations of
land use and land cover change in forested regions of the Western Hemisphere.
Analysis of satellite images and aerial photography provides
a major source of regional and site-specific data concerning processes
of change in land use and cover. Secondary source collection draws
data from censuses, national regulations, published studies and historical
documents to provide site-specific and meso-level data. Fieldwork
involves botanical and soil inventories, household surveys, interviews,
community focus groups and archival research. It incorporates ground-truthing
of remotely sensed images to identify land use and vegetation cover for
image classification. Fieldwork also assesses changes in land use and land
cover at local and regional levels. The results of fieldwork are recorded
in a series of data protocols developed in conjunction with the International
Forestry Resources and Institutions (IFRI)
Research Program.
CIPEC's Methodological Contributions
CIPEC personnel work in interdisciplinary teams to develop and refine
CIPEC methods for image analysis and fieldwork methods. They include faculty
and students associated with the Anthropological Center for Training and
Research on Global Environmental Change (ACT),
the Workshop in Political
Theory and Policy Analysis, the Population Institute for Research and Training
(PIRT), and the Midwestern
Regional Center of the National Institute for Global Environmental Change
(NIGEC).
Each of these centers is concerned with various aspects of Human Dimensions
of Global Change; they include ecologists, demographers, anthropologists,
sociologists, and remote sensing and GIS professionals. Cooperation among
these specialists has resulted in the development of site selection criteria,
and the design and testing of CIPEC laboratory and fieldwork methods.
CIPEC researchers have produced the following:
CIPEC Research Design Types
CIPEC selects sites according to following criteria:
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Forest types that cross more than one country or sub-national jurisdiction,
where significant differences in national, regional, and/or local institutions
exist so the impact of diverse institutions and policies can be assessed
while controlling for broad ecological factors.
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Sites where substantial prior ecological data exist so that information
about long-term ecological processes can be combined with information about
social, economic, and political processes.
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A sample of sites selected from data analysis of satellite images of sub-regions
exhibiting particularly rapid or slow rates of deforestation and regrowth.
Ground-level research is needed to ascertain what socioeconomic and biophysical
processes are generating the faster or slower rates of change.
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Sites selected to address policy concerns within a country where the research
is undertaken. Some of these will monitor policy innovations. Others will
assess self-organized or indigenous institutions for their sustainability.
Completed and Projected Sites in the CIPEC Matrix:
Forest Types and Institutional Regimes
CIPEC sites fall within one of three forest types: temperate
deciduous, tropical dry, and
tropical moist. CIPEC sites are carefully selected based on a specified set
of criteria. They also are arrayed along one
of three forest management regimes: private, communal, or government-owned.
Both dimensions are presented in the following matrix, which also lists
existing and planned research sites.
Completed and Projected Sites in the CIPEC Matrix:
| Forest Types |
Institutional Regimes
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Temperate
Deciduous Forest |
Government
Owned |
Privately Owned |
Communally Owned |
| - Hoosier National
Forest, Indiana |
- Dolan Ridge, Indiana |
- May
Creek, Indiana |
| - Yellowwood
State Forest, Indiana |
- Painted Hills, Indiana |
- Oak, Indiana |
| - Morgan
Monroe State Forest, Indiana |
- Monroe County, Indiana |
-
Lothlorien, Indiana |
| - Government
Forest, Chile* |
- Industrial Forest, Chile* |
- Mapuche Communal
Forest, Chile* |
| |
- Non-industrial Forest,
Chile* |
|
| Tropical Dry Forest |
Government
Owned |
Privately Owned |
Communally Owned |
| - Sierra de las Minas,
Guatemala |
- Concepción Las
Minas, Guatemala |
- Moran, Guatemala |
| - Beza-Mahafaly
Special Reserve, Madagascar |
- Finca Dulce
Nombre, Guatemala |
- Concepción Las
Minas, Guatemala |
| - Vohibasia
National Park, Madagascar |
- La Campa, Honduras |
- Las Cebollas, Guatemala |
| - Besavoha,
Madagascar |
- Privatized
ejido, Mexico* |
- Tesoro, Guatemala |
| - Government
Forest , Mexico* |
- Andamasiny Plantation,
Madagascar* |
- Sotuta, Mexico |
| |
|
- La Campa, Honduras |
| |
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- La Merced, Bolivia |
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- Capulálpam,
Oaxaca, Mexico |
| |
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- Andranovory, Madagascar |
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- Donaciano Ojeda, Michoacán, Mexico ** |
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- Cerro Prieto, Michoacán, Mexico ** |
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- Indigenous community,
Oaxaca,
Mexico* |
| Tropical Moist Forest |
Government
Owned |
Privately Owned |
Communally Owned |
| - Río
Plátano, Honduras |
- Altamira,
Brazil |
- Santa Anita, Bolivia |
| - Campus
Forest, Manaus, Brazil |
- Belterra, Brazil |
- Trinidadcito, Bolivia |
| - State
Conservation Area, Atlantic Forest, Brazil |
- Igarapé-Açú, Brazil |
- Misiones, Bolivia |
| - Federal
Conservation Area, Atlantic Forest, Brazil |
- Ituquí, Brazil |
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Chongon-Colonche,
Ecuador |
| - Semliki,
Uganda |
- Marajo, Brazil |
- Quilombo, Atlantic
Forest, Brazil |
| - Mantadia
National Park, Madagascar |
- Tomé-Açu, Brazil |
- Mpigi
Communal Forest, Uganda |
| - Lwamunda
Forest Reserve, Uganda |
- Nova
Esperança, Brazil |
- Maromizaha, Madagascar |
| - Chitwan,
Nepal* |
- Boa
Esperança, Brazil |
- Chitwan, Nepal* |
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- Tracua, Brazil |
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- Private Area, Atlantic
Forest, Brazil |
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- Namungo's Forest, Uganda |
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- Fanamalanga, Madagascar |
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- Chitwan, Nepal* |
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*Pending **
Located within the Monarch Butterfly Reserve
Distribution of CIPEC Research Sites in the World
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Last Updated: January 13, 2005
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2005, The Trustees of Indiana
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