Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 3,324
Cover Image
The Ecological Footprint of Poverty Alleviation: Evidence from Mexico's Oportunidades Program
Alix-Garcia, Jennifer; McIntosh, Craig; Sims, Katharine … - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 95 (2013) 2, pp. 417-435
deforestation and use the program's initial randomized rollout to explore household responses. We find that additional income raises … consumption of land-intensive goods and increases deforestation. The observed production response and deforestation increase are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011010051
Cover Image
Chapter 5. Population, Poverty, and the Natural Environment
Dasgupta, Partha - In: Handbook of environmental economics : volume 1, …, (pp. 191-247). 2003
This chapter studies the interface in poor countries of population growth, rural poverty, and deterioration of the local natural-resource base, a subject that has been much neglected by modern demographers and development economists. The motivations for procreation in rural communities of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023940
Cover Image
Potential links between certified organic coffee and deforestation in a protected area in Chiapas, Mexico
Jurjonas, Matthew; Crossman, Katie; Solomon, Jennifer; … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 78 (2016), pp. 13-21
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600625
Cover Image
Effects of protected areas on forest cover change and local communities : evidence from the Peruvian Amazon
Miranda, Juan José; Corral, Leonardo; Blackman, Allen; … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 78 (2016), pp. 288-307
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011602565
Cover Image
Technology spillovers and land use change : empirical evidence from global agriculture
Villoria, Nelson Benjamin - In: American journal of agricultural economics 101 (2019) 3, pp. 870-893
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114831
Cover Image
Agricultural productivity and forest conservation : evidence from the Brazilian Amazon
Koch, Nikolas; Ermgassen, Erasmus K. H. J. zu; Wehkamp, … - In: American journal of agricultural economics 101 (2019) 3, pp. 919-940
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114845
Cover Image
The land use consequences of rural to urban migration
Brewer, Julia; Larsen, Ashley; Noack, Frederik - In: American journal of agricultural economics 106 (2024) 1, pp. 177-205
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014443406
Cover Image
Agricultural households' adaptation to weather shocks in Sub-Saharan Africa : implications for land-use change and deforestation
Girard, Julia; Delacote, Philippe; Leblois, Antoine - In: Environment and development economics 26 (2021) 5/6, pp. 538-560
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012656640
Cover Image
Brazilian land registry impacts on land use conversion
Jung, Suhyun; Dyngeland, Cecilie; Rausch, Lisa; … - In: American journal of agricultural economics 104 (2022) 1, pp. 340-363
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012796451
Cover Image
An evaluation of protected area policies in the European Union
Grupp, Tristan Earle; Mishra, Prakash; Reynaert, Mathias; … - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014435445