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
Rights to large areas of forest have been granted to communities and indigenous peoples in Latin America, offering these groups an opportunity to participate in REDD+ initiatives. However, tenure is not always secure, and security of tenure alone is insufficient to guarantee positive outcomes for...
Larson, A.M.
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Corbera, E.
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Cronkleton, P.
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Dam, C. van
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Bray, D.B.
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Estrada, M.
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May, P.
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Medina, G.
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Navarro, G.
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Pacheco, P.
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[Rights to forests and carbon under REDD+ initiatives in Latin America]
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Rights to forests and carbon under REDD+ initiatives in Latin America
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
The main challenge that the Amazon region poses is what should be done to avoid that the region will follow the fate of other tropical regions: forest destruction and poverty. The fact that most of 80 percent of the region remains as forest leaves us the opportunity to build the way towards susta...
Alencar, A.
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Nepstad, D.C.
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McGrath, D.
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Moutinho, P.
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Pacheco, P.
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Carmen Vera Diaz, M. del
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Soares Filho, B.
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[Desmatamento na Amazonia: indo alem da "emergencia cronica"]
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Desmatamento na Amazonia: indo alem da "emergencia cronica"
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
German, L.
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Schoneveld, G.C.
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Skutsch, M.
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Andriani, R.
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Obidzinski, K.
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Pacheco, P.
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Komarudin, H.
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Andrianto, A.
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Lima, M.
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Dayang Norwana, A.A.B.
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[The local social and environmental impacts of biofuel feedstock expansion: a synthesis of case studies from Asia, Africa and Latin America]
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The local social and environmental impacts of biofuel feedstock expansion: a synthesis of case studies from Asia, Africa and Latin America