This study outlines a case where the behaviour of farmers in accumulating capital, rather than their poverty as commonly assumed, results in deforestation. Fieldwork was undertaken in the Upper Kerinci region of the island of Sumatera, Indonesia. A financial analysis of the "net income" streams r...
Wibowo, D.H.
,
Tisdell, C.A.
,
Byron, R.N.
,
[Deforestation and capital accumulation: lessons from the Upper Kerinci region, Indonesia]
,
Deforestation and capital accumulation: lessons from the Upper Kerinci region, Indonesia
Numerous published economic models of tropical deforestation are reviewed, in four categories: - a Neo-Malthusian approach, often nebulous and imprecise in terms of causal processes, which sees population pressure as the underlying cause of tropical deforestation; - those focusing on government f...
This study outlines a case where the behaviour of farmers in accumulating capital, rather than their poverty as commonly assumed, results in deforestation. Fieldwork was undertaken in the Upper Kerinci region of the island of Sumatera, Indonesia. A financial analysis of the "net income" streams r...
Wibowo, D.H.
,
Tisdell, C.A.
,
Byron, R.N.
,
[Deforestation and capital accumulation: lessons from the Upper Kerinci region, Indonesia]
,
Deforestation and capital accumulation: lessons from the Upper Kerinci region, Indonesia