The department of Santa Cruz in Bolivia makes part of the Amazon basin, and it embraces a large portion of the Bolivian lowland forest, with most of its area covered by semideciduous forest. The agricultural development, and hence deforestation in Santa Cruz, does not follow any similar path of o...
Pacheco, P.
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Mertens, B.
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[Land use change and agriculture development in Santa Cruz, Bolivia]
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Land use change and agriculture development in Santa Cruz, Bolivia
This paper examines the interactions between state-led land reform, agrarian structures, and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Land reform tends to promote land redistribution through regularization of smallholder land invasions of large-scale landholdings, and by redistribution of public la...
Pacheco, P.
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[Agrarian reform in the Brazilian Amazon: its implications for land distribution and deforestation]
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Agrarian reform in the Brazilian Amazon: its implications for land distribution and deforestation
Forests in lowland Bolivia suffer from severe deforestation caused by different types of agents and land use activities. We identify three major proximate causes of deforestation. The largest share of deforestation is attributable to the expansion of mechanized agriculture, followed by cattle ran...
Muller, R.
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Muller, D.
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Schierhorn, F.
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Gerold, G.
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Pacheco, P.
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[Proximate causes of deforestation in the Bolivian lowlands: an analysis of spatial dynamics]
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Proximate causes of deforestation in the Bolivian lowlands: an analysis of spatial dynamics
A preliminary insight into how structural adjustment policies (SAPs) may have affected deforestation and forest degradation in the lowland tropical forests of Bolivia, Cameroon and Indonesia. It presents tentative hypotheses regarding how changes in prices, costs, incomes and government services ...
Kaimowitz, D.
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Erwidodo.
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Ndoye, O.
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Pacheco, P.
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Balanza, P.P.
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Sunderlin, William D.
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[Considering the impact of structural adjustment policies on forests in Bolivia, Cameroon and Indonesia]
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Considering the impact of structural adjustment policies on forests in Bolivia, Cameroon and Indonesia
Bolivia's structural adjustment policies, initiated in 1985, increased poverty among certain groups, but this did not lead to widespread migration to the agricultural frontier. Nor did adjustment greatly affect the average area planted in annual crops by small lowland farmers. Structural adjustme...
Kaimowitz, D.
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Thiele, Graham
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Pacheco, P.
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[The effects of structural adjustment on deforestation and forest degradation in lowland Bolivia]
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The effects of structural adjustment on deforestation and forest degradation in lowland Bolivia
In this paper, I examine patterns of wealth accumulation and their influence on deforestation among smallholders at Uruará and Redenção, in the state of Pará in the Brazilian Eastern Amazon. I argue that the development of the smallholder economy has not been a linear process, and the diversity o...
Pacheco, P.
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[Smallholder Livelihoods, Wealth and Deforestation in the Eastern Amazon.]
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Smallholder Livelihoods, Wealth and Deforestation in the Eastern Amazon.
In this article, we attempt to find the spatial relations between deforestation and biofuel production at global level by analyzing available global deforestation and biofuels data, and find that, for a variety of reasons relating to data availability and its characteristics, and the way biofuels...
Gao, Y.
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Skutsch, M.
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Drigo, R.
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Pacheco, P.
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Masera, O.
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[Assessing deforestation from biofuels: methodological challenges]
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Assessing deforestation from biofuels: methodological challenges
Pacheco, P.
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[Agricultural expansion and deforestation in lowland Bolivia: the import substitution versus the structural adjustment model]
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Agricultural expansion and deforestation in lowland Bolivia: the import substitution versus the structural adjustment model
The authors used a configurational comparative approach, the Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), to study multiple causal interactions characterizing deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Their data set is based on seven local case studies at three time periods. Results reveal a limited numb...
Scouvart, M.
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Adams, R.T.
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Caldas, M.
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Dale, V.
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Mertens, B.
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Nédélec, V.
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Pacheco, P.
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Rihoux, B.
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Lambin, E.F.
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[Causes of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: a qualitative comparative analysis]
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Causes of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: a qualitative comparative analysis
In this paper, I illustrate the dynamics of frontier development in the Redencao area in southern Para, one of the oldest agricultural frontiers in the Brazilian Amazon. This frontier has evolved from a landscape initially dominated by large-scale corporations investing in cattle ranching, to ano...
Pacheco, P.
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[Agrarian change, cattle ranching and deforestation: Assessing their linkages in Southern Para]
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Agrarian change, cattle ranching and deforestation: Assessing their linkages in Southern Para