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Ethanol Production, Food and Forests
Sa, Saraly Andrade de; Palmer, Charles; Engel, Stefanie - Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge - 2010
This paper investigates the direct and indirect impacts of ethanol production on land use, deforestation and food … of direct land competition between rival uses increases deforestation and decreases food production. Second, an indirect … displacement of food production across regions, provoked by a shift in the price of food, increases deforestation and reduces the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008623423
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Water-resource and land-use issues
Calder, Ian R. - International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
This paper reviews perceived notions of the relationships between catchment land use and hydrology and explores whether much of the widely disseminated folklore, so often inextricably linked with issues of land use, is based on myth or reality. Gaps in our knowledge of the underlying processes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009326100
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Ethanol production, food and forests
Andrade de Sa, Saraly; Palmer, Charles; Engel, Stefanie - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
This paper investigates the direct and indirect impacts of ethanol production on land use, deforestation and food … of direct land competition between rival uses increases deforestation and decreases food production. Second, an indirect … displacement of food production across regions, provoked by a shift in the price of food, increases deforestation and reduces the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746560
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Population, Land Use and Deforestation in the Pan Amazon Basin: a Comparison of Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú and Venezuela
Perz, Stephen; Aramburú, Carlos; Bremner, Jason - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 7 (2005) 1, pp. 23-49
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010997221
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Determinants of Agricultural Intensity Index “Scores” in a Frontier Region: An Analysis of Data from Northern Guatemala
Shriar, Avrum - In: Agriculture and Human Values 22 (2005) 4, pp. 395-410
Data on farming systems in Petén, Guatemala, were used to develop an agricultural intensity index. The index can be used to assign an intensity “score” to a given farming system based on the array of practices used by the farmer, each practice’s contribution to production intensity, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011002028
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Theorizing Land-Cover and Land-Use Change: The Case of Tropical Deforestation
Walker, Robert - In: International Regional Science Review 27 (2004) 3, pp. 247-270
to land use in mainly urban models, the article filters a discussion of deforestation through the lens of bid-rent and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011139264
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The Economics of Endangered Species
Innes, Robert; Frisvold, George - In: Annual Review of Resource Economics 1 (2009) 1, pp. 485-512
Because habitat conversion is the greatest threat to species, this article focuses on economic incentives for private land users to protect habitat. Habitat protection policies that fail to account for private incentives often have unintended negative consequences. Private incentives for habitat...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010614179
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REDD for Malaysia?
Jean-Marc, Roda; Puasa, Ahmad Fauzi; Rahman, Rohana Abd; … - In: EAS Strategic Options 2010 (2010) 04, pp. 1-2
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) is a mechanism which aims to mitigate the negative … community in order to prevent deforestation or degradation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009190199
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Effects of Protected Areas on Forest Cover Change and Local Communities
Miranda, Juan Jose; Corral, Leonardo; Blackman, Allen; … - 2014
Protected areas are a cornerstone of forest conservation in developing countries. Yet we know little about their effects on forest cover change or the socioeconomic status of local communities, and even less about the relationship between these effects. This paper assesses whether “win-win”...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959428
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Effects of Protected Areas on Forest Cover Change and Local Communities: Evidence from the Peruvian Amazon
Miranda, Juan Jose; Corral, Leonardo; Blackman, Allen; … - 2014
Protected areas are a cornerstone of forest conservation in developing countries. Yet we know little about their effects on forest cover change or the socioeconomic status of local communities, and even less about the relationship between these effects. This paper assesses whether “win-win”...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959432