This paper reviews the shifts in thinking as reflected in eight recent books that discuss deforestation in the Amazon. It looks first at whether the land uses that replace forests are profitable and sustainable without subsidies and then examines how technology, tenure, credit, and roads affect d...
This paper analyzes geo-referenced data to elucidate the relations between deforestation and access to roads and markets, attributes of the physical environment, land tenure, and zoning policies in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. It presents separate models for Santa Cruz as a whole and for seven different ...
Mertens, B.
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Kaimowitz, D.
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Puntodewo, A.
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Vanclay, J.K.
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Mendez, P.
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[Modeling deforestation at distinct geographic scales and time periods in Santa Cruz, Bolivia]
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Modeling deforestation at distinct geographic scales and time periods in Santa Cruz, Bolivia
This paper applies a spatial economic regression model to analyze the relation between deforestation in the period from 1989 to 1994 and access to roads and markets, ecological conditions, land tenure, and zoning policies in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. The data come from a Geographic Information System ...
Kaimowitz, D.
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Mendez, P.
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Puntodewo, A.
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Vanclay, J.K.
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[Spatial regression analysis of deforestation in Santa Cruz, Bolivia]
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Spatial regression analysis of deforestation in Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Approximately 25 millon people live in the main forested regions of Latin America. The forestry sector there directly provides two or three million jobs and perhaps another three or four million people work in related activities. Many poor households use fuelwood, hunt wild animals, and benefit f...
The most important change in land use in Central America in the last 40 years has been the widespread conversion of forest to pasture. The literature presents a number of explanations for this expansion. Depending on which factors are believed to be important, the prognosis and policy recommendat...