Agricultural Expansion And Tropical Deforestation

Author : Solon L. Barraclough
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781317972983

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Agricultural Expansion and Tropical Deforestation by Solon L. Barraclough Pdf

There is no clear-cut causal relationship between international trade, agricultural expansion and tropical deforestation. Academics, policy-makers and the public are all tempted by simplistic solutions to complex problems. In order to establish the true causal factors involved in this critical area of environmental decline, the authors of this study present case studies ranging over three continents. Utilizing statistics, it is shown that the focus of analysis of deforestation must be applied as much to the misguided policies of national and regional authorities as to the forces of trade and globalization. Further, it demonstrates that we must adopt a critical perspective on the historical context of human use of forest areas, looking at issues such as systems of land tenure. The primary aim of the book is to highlight the need to seek solutions in far-reaching institutional and policy reforms adapted to specific socio-economic and ecological contexts, if the problem of tropical deforestation is to be tackled effectively.

Author : Solon L. Barraclough,Kléber Bertrand Ghimire
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015050125973

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Agricultural Expansion and Tropical Deforestation by Solon L. Barraclough,Kléber Bertrand Ghimire Pdf

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Arild Angelsen,David Kaimowitz
Publisher : CABI
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001-04-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0851998992

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Agricultural Technologies and Tropical Deforestation by Arild Angelsen,David Kaimowitz Pdf

This book has been developed from a workshop on Technological change in agriculture and tropical deforestation organised by the Center for International Forestry Research and held in Costa Rica in March, 1999. It explores how intensification of agriculture affects tropical deforestation using case studies from different geographical regions, using different agricultural products and technologies and in differing demographic situations and market conditions. Guidance is also given on future agricultural research and extension efforts.

Author : Piet Buys
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780821367360

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At Loggerheads? by Piet Buys Pdf

The report offers a simple framework for policy analysis by identifying three forest types: frontiers and disputed lands; lands beyond the agricultural frontier; and, mosaic lands where forests and agriculture coexist. It collates geographic and economic information for each type that will help formulate poverty-reducing forest policy.

Author : David Kaimowitz,Arild Angelsen
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Deforestation
ISBN : 9789798764172

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Economic Models of Tropical Deforestation: A Review by David Kaimowitz,Arild Angelsen Pdf

Types of economic deforestation models. Household and firm-level models. Regional-level models. National and macro-level models. Priority areas for future research.

Author : Kenneth M. Chomitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : MINN:31951P00848328X

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At Loggerheads? by Kenneth M. Chomitz Pdf

Author : C. J. Jepma
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781317971726

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Tropical Deforestation by C. J. Jepma Pdf

The depletion of the tropical rain forests has attracted considerable attention in recent times, and the serious consequences for the global biosphere are widely acknowledged. Yet deforestation continues apace, and in some areas (for example, southeast Asia) the very existence of the forests is seriously threatened. Contrary to popular belief, evidence suggests that local economic and living conditions are more significant in this than timber exploitation for exports to the Northern countries. Tropical Deforestation - A Socio-Economic Approach offers a new perspective on the economic imperatives which encourage indigenous populations to encroach upon their own forests, and shows how action against deforestation must form part of a wider movement to improve both the living conditions of the local inhabitants and the durability of their national economies. Part 1 offers an overview of the processes surrounding deforestation, and an assessment of the current situation. Part 2 analyses the land-use issues, and explains the socioeconomic imperatives in the affected regions. In an absorbing conclusion. Part 3 guides the reader through a series of hypothetical policy scenarios, using a specially adapted economic computer model, to predict which combinations of policies and trade arrangements might bring about a more beneficial state of affairs.

Author : Thomas K. Rudel,Bruce Horowitz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0231080441

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Tropical Deforestation by Thomas K. Rudel,Bruce Horowitz Pdf

The highly publicized obscenity trial of Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness (1928) is generally recognized as the crystallizing moment in the construction of a visible modern English lesbian culture, marking a great divide between innocence and deviance, private and public, New Woman and Modern Lesbian. Yet despite unreserved agreement on the importance of this cultural moment, previous studies often reductively distort our reading of the formation of early twentieth-century lesbian identity, either by neglecting to examine in detail the developments leading up to the ban or by framing events in too broad a context against other cultural phenomena. Fashioning Sapphism locates the novelist Radclyffe Hall and other prominent lesbians--including the pioneer in women's policing, Mary Allen, the artist Gluck, and the writer Bryher--within English modernity through the multiple sites of law, sexology, fashion, and literary and visual representation, thus tracing the emergence of a modern English lesbian subculture in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Drawing on extensive new archival research, the book interrogates anew a range of myths long accepted without question (and still in circulation) concerning, to cite only a few, the extent of homophobia in the 1920s, the strategic deployment of sexology against sexual minorities, and the rigidity of certain cultural codes to denote lesbianism in public culture.

Author : Sharon L. Spray,Matthew David Moran
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0742534820

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Tropical Deforestation by Sharon L. Spray,Matthew David Moran Pdf

Tropical Deforestation introduces readers to the important concepts for understanding the environmental challenges and consequences of the deforestation. Contributions from scientists and academics in the social sciences and humanities provide readers with an initial 'tool kit' for understanding the concepts central to their disciplinary perspective and the multi-dimensional aspects of deforestation.

Author : Arild Angelsen
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Common Property Resource Development
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Forest Cover Change in Space and Time by Arild Angelsen Pdf

This paper presents a framework for analyzing tropical deforestation and reforestation using the von Thunen model as its starting point: land is allocated to the use which yields the highest rent, and the rents of various land uses are determined by location. Forest cover change therefore becomes a question of changes in rent of forest versus non-forest use. While this is a simple and powerful starting point, more intriguing issues arise when this is applied to analyze real cases. An initial shift in the rent of one particular land use generates feedbacks which affect the rent of all land uses. For example, a new technology in extensive agriculture should make this land use more profitable and lead to more forest clearing, but general equilibrium effects (changes in prices and local wages) can modify or even reverse this conclusion. Another issue is how a policy change or a shift in broader market, technological, and institutional forces will affect various land use rents. The paper deals with three such areas: technological progress in agriculture, land tenure regimes, and community forest management. The second part of the paper links the von Thunen framework to the forest transition theory. The forest transition theory describes a sequence over time where a forested region goes through a period of deforestation before the forest cover eventually stabilizes and starts to increase. This sequence can be seen as a systematic pattern of change in the agricultural and forest land rents over time. Increasing agricultural rent leads to high rates of deforestation. The slow-down of deforestation and eventual reforestation is due to lower agricultural rents (the economic development path) and higher forest rent (the forest scarcity path). Various forces leading to these changes are discussed and supported by empirical evidence from different tropical regions.

Author : Edward B. Barbier,Joanne C. Burgess
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780299237332

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Tropical Deforestation and Land Use by Edward B. Barbier,Joanne C. Burgess Pdf

Country case studies investigate key factors that influence the economics of tropical deforestation and land use. Articles illustrate how innovative economic models can be used effectively to investigate a range of important influences on tropical land use changes in a variety of representative developing countries. The countries covered are: Brazil, India, Malaysia, Panama, the Philippines, Thailand, and Uganda.

Author : Helmut Geist
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Deforestation
ISBN : MINN:31951D01940547M

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What Drives Tropical Deforestation? by Helmut Geist Pdf

Author : Thomas K. Rudel
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Deforestation
ISBN : 9780231131957

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Tropical Forests by Thomas K. Rudel Pdf

In Tropical Forests, Rudel analyzes hundreds of local studies from the past twenty years to develop a much-needed, global perspective on deforestation. With separate chapters on individual regions, including South and Central America, the Caribbean, and Africa, Rudel's work offers an up-to-date assessment of the world's tropical forests. In the concluding chapter, Rudel considers the implications of these trends and describes policy directions for conserving biodiversity and promoting sustainable development in each region.

Author : Katrina Brown,David W. Pearce
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000924664

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The Causes of Tropical Deforestation by Katrina Brown,David W. Pearce Pdf

The Causes of Tropical Deforestation (1994) is an analysis of the problem of deforestation, using statistical technique – a form of ‘environ-metrics’ – to discover the true causes of an issue whose basis is hotly debated, and attributed to causes as varied as poverty, external debt, multinational logging companies, government corruption, the IMF, population growth, and non-sustainable agriculture.

Author : A. Angelsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:709814466

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Agricultural Technologies and Tropical Deforestation by A. Angelsen Pdf