Voices of Land from Southern Myanmar: Ein Da Rar Zar – A Karen Village in Yebyu Township about Land Use Change and Wellbeing

ABSTRACTED FROM AIM OF THE RESEARCH PROJECT AND WORKING PAPERS: Within the international project Telecoupled Landscapes, one research package focuses on land governance in Myanmar. The case study area is located in Yebyu Township, Tanintharyi Region, Southern Myanmar. From various land uses and land use changes, we draw a network of included and excluded stakeholders in land use decision-making. We analyse these stakeholders based on their strategies, activities, and resources, and combine this information with the flows of money, products, information, and people between the organisational stakeholders, as well as the formal and informal institutions that they adhere to. For this research package, we collaborate with various stakeholders in land governance, what forms the basis for this series of working papers. The overall research question for this specific research package is: How can a transformation towards sustainable land governance in Dawei area, Southern Myanmar, be supported?

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