Gender Roles And Land Use Preferences-Implications To Landscape Restoration In Southeast Asia

Land restoration has been proposed to reverse degradation. However, to make land restoration efforts
effective, social factors including gender appreciation of land uses must be considered (Villamor
et al., 2014a; Ban et al., 2013; Bernard et al., 2014). We argue in this section that the pathway to land
restoration is influenced by the way that land is appreciated by multiple direct stakeholders. The diversity
of these stakes is an important consideration in efforts to reclaim or restore land. Through three
case studies conducted in Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines, we highlight the roles that women
play in agriculture and decision making, as well as their choices over land use. We found that contextspecific
gender roles and an appreciation of land uses play a role in predicting future changes in landuse
and land restoration efforts. Our case study findings are instructive for future land restoration
efforts in southeast Asia.