The effect of a political crisis on performance of community- and state-managed forests in Madagascar

Data associated with paper: "The effect of a political crisis on performance of community forests and protected areas in Madagascar"

For code and selected tabular data outputs, also see: https://github.com/raenb0/madagascar

Includes a number of files with raster (tif) data. All data is for Madagascar:

⦁    for2000.tif is forest cover in the year 2000⦁    for2000_0.tif is the same as above but contains 0 values instead of NA values (better for analysis)⦁    defor_year_90m is annual deforestation as a proportion of each 90 m pixel that is deforested, values range from 0-1.

data on all time-invariant covariates used for matching, including:⦁    dist_cart (distance from cart tracks, meters)⦁    dist_road (distance from roads, meters)⦁    dist_urb (distance from villages, meters)⦁    dist_urb (distance from urban centers, meters)⦁    dist_vil (distance from villages, meters)⦁    edge_05 (distance from forest edge in 2005, meters)⦁    elev (elevation, meters)⦁    q1_materials (index of self-reported development level, based on material assets)⦁    rain (average precipitation 1970-2000, mm)⦁    rice (rice suitability, 0 for unsuitable or 1 for suitable)⦁    slope (slope, meters)⦁    v7_security (self-reported indicator of security and risk of theft)⦁    veg_type (vegetation type, 1= eastern humid forest, 2= western deciduous forest, 3 = southern dry spiny forest)

time-variant covariates include (for years 2005-2020):⦁    distance_year (distance from forest edge of each forest pixel, in meters, in each year)⦁    drght_year (drought severity, Palmer Index Score)⦁    pop_year (human population density, people per sq km)⦁    precip_year (maximum accumulated precipitation, mm)⦁    rice_av_year (annual average rice prices, in USD)⦁    rice_sd_year (standard deviation of rice price, in USD)⦁    temp_year (maximum annual temperature, degrees C)⦁    wind_year (maximum annual windspeed, meters/sec)

Shapefile polygons for Community Forest Managed areas (CFM) and protected areas administered by Madagascar National Parks can be requested from the corresponding author: ran63 (at) cornell (dot) edu

Shapefile polygons for protected areas in Madagascar are available from the World Database of Protected Areas: https://www.protectedplanet.net/country/MDG