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The diffusion of cattle ranching and deforestation : prospects for a hollow frontier in Mexico’s Yucatán
Busch, Christopher B.; Vance, Colin - 2011
This article investigates the behavioral drivers of pasture creation and associated implications for deforestation in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008935247
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The conservation versus production trade-off : does livestock intensification increase deforestation? : the case of the Brazilian Amazon
Vale, Petterson Molina - 2015
More cattle, less deforestation? Land use intensification in the Amazon is an unexpected phenomenon. Theories of hollow … rising land productivity of cattle increase deforestation? I use secondary data and spatial econometrics to look for evidence … of a positive relation between cattle intensification and deforestation (‘rebound effect’). The reduced-form model I …
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Opportunities and challenges to the sustainable development of cattle raising in Brazil, 1970-2005
Reis, Eustáquio José - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 18 (2017) 1, pp. 18-39
The paper provides historical and analytical perspectives for the assessment of the challenges and opportunities of cattle raising activities in the transition toward a low-carbon agriculture in Brazil. It is organized as follows. The first section poses the problem. The second presents long run...
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Economic and policy mechanisms affecting land use decisions in the Brazilian agricultural frontier
Miranda Arana, A. Javier - 2021
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Examining the reliability of survey data with remote sensing and geographic information systems to improve deforestation modeling
Caviglia-Harris, Jill L. (contributor);  … - In: The review of regional studies : a joint publ. of the … 35 (2005) 2, pp. 187-205
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Do national markets and price policies affect land use at the forest margin? : Evidence from the Philippines
Coxhead, Ian - 1999
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Determinants and interactions of sustainability and risk management of commercial cattle farmers in Namibia
Ingenillem, Jessica; Merz, Joachim; Baumgärtner, Stefan - 2014
We study the determinants and interactions of sustainability and risk management with a cross-sectional dataset on commercial cattle farming in semi-arid rangelands in Namibia. Cattle farmers in Namibia act within a coupled ecological-economic system that is subject to extensive degradation and...
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Optimal grazing management rules in semi-arid rangelands with uncertain rainfall
Quaas, Martin F.; Baumgärtner, Stefan - 2011
We study optimal adaptive grazing management under uncertain rainfall in a discrete-time model. As in each year actual rainfall can be observed during the short rainy season, and grazing management can be adapted accordingly for the growing season, the closed-loop solution of the stochastic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008907785
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Pitfalls and potential of institutional change : rain-index insurance and the sustainability of rangeland management
Müller, Birgit; Quaas, Martin F.; Frank, Karin; … - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008908100
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Pitfalls and potential of institutional change : rain-index insurance and the sustainability of rangeland management
Müller, Birgit; Quaas, Martin; Frank, Karin; … - 2009
Rain-index insurance is strongly advocated in many parts of the developing world to help farmers to cope with climatic risk that prevail in (semi-)arid rangelands due to low and highly uncertain rainfall. We present a modeling analysis of how the availability of rain-index insurance affects the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003921518