Tourism,forest conversion,and land transformations in the Angkor basin,Cambodia |
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| Authors: | Andrea E. Gaughan Michael W. Binford Jane Southworth |
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| Affiliation: | 1. School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia;2. Department for the Study of Arts and Culture, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands;1. Roma Tre University, Department of Science, Viale Marconi 446, 00146, Rome, Italy;2. National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo, 13-43, Ueno Park, Taito-ku, Tokyo, 110-8713, Japan;3. Department of Botany, National Museum of Nature and Science, 4-1-1, Tsukuba, Japan;4. National Institute of Biological Resources, Environmental Research Complex, Incheon, 404-170, Republic of Korea;1. Suzhou Administration College, Suzhou 215011, China;2. Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xishuangbanna 666303, China;3. Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla 666303, China;4. Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University, P.O. Box: 2713, Doha, Qatar;5. Environmental Science Center, Qatar University, P.O. Box: 2713, Doha, Qatar;1. The Finnish Forest Research Institute, P.O. Box 16, FI-96301 Rovaniemi, Finland;2. MTT Agrifood Research Finland, Plant Production Research, Eteläranta 55, FI-96300 Rovaniemi, Finland;3. The Finnish Forest Research Institute, Finland;4. Aalto University, Department of Architecture, Finland;1. Department of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Desing, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Çanakkale, Turkey;2. Department of Gastronomy and Culinary Arts, Faculty of Tourism, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Çanakkale, Turkey;3. Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Çanakkale, Turkey |
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| Abstract: | The Angkor basin of Cambodia, the site of the great Angkor temple complex, has experienced explosive tourism growth since the 1993 onset of national political stability and renewed international investment, which in turn has driven increasing demand for water, wood, and biomass fuel, and rapid and extensive land-use and land-cover change. We use multi-temporal Landsat imagery (1989–2005) to describe the rate and extent of land-cover change throughout the Angkor basin. While 50% of the landscape remained in rice agriculture it is notable that a larger proportion of the area was deforested (23.4%) than experienced forest regrowth (4.9%). Most forest loss occurred between the Angkor temple complex and Phnom Kulen National Park, and was due in part to charcoal production to serve the tourist industry, and also conversion to permanent agriculture. The small area of forest increase was concentrated along the eastern boundary of the main Angkor complex. The interplay among global (tourism, climate), regional (national policies, large-river management), and local (construction and agriculture, energy and water sources to support the tourism industry) factors drives a distinctive but complex pattern of land-use and land-cover change. |
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