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A Spatiotemporal Model of Shifting Cultivation and Forest Cover Dynamics
Brown, Douglas R. - 2007
Shifting cultivation is the primary means of livelihood for subsistence farmers throughout the humid forests of the tropics. They rely on the forest landscape as a source of fertile land to sustain their livelihood. Sustainable use of the resource base requires long periods of fallow and the...
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Land access, tenure and investment in post-war northern mozambique
Brück, Tilman - 2003
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Land access, tenure and investment in post-war Northern Mozambique
Brück, Tilman - 2003
The relationship between land investment and tenure security is usually tested in land scarce but peaceful areas. This article examines instead the effects of land abundance and war for investment and tenure security. The paper demonstrates that war enhances land abundance. This implies that...
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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...
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Modeling deforestation in a computable general equilibrium model
Thiele, Rainer; Wiebelt, Manfred - 1993
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Mathematical formulation and exact solution for landing location problem in tropical forest selective logging, a case study in Southeast Cameroon
Philippart, Julien; Sun, Minghe; Doucet, Jean-Louis; … - In: Journal of forest economics : JFE 18 (2012) 2, pp. 113-122
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ACGE analysis of policies to combat deforestation in Cameroon
Wiebelt, Manfred; Thiele, Rainer - In: Issues in agricultural competitiveness : markets and …, (pp. 108-120). 1997
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Land conversion pace under uncertainty and irreversibility : too fast or too slow?
Di Corato, Luca; Moretto, Michele; Vergalli, Sergio - 2011
of deforestation. Interestingly, we show that uncertainty, even if it induces conversion postponement in the short …-run, increases the average rate of deforestation and reduces expected time for total conversion in the long run. Finally, we … illustrate our findings through some numerical simulations. -- Optimal Stopping ; Deforestation ; Payments for Environmental …
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Deforestation control and agricultural supply in Brasil
Ferreira Filho, Joaquim Bento de Souza; Ribera, Luis A.; … - In: American journal of agricultural economics 97 (2015) 2, pp. 589-601
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Essays on economic and land-use impacts of biofuels production
Andrade de Sá, Saraly - 2011
Obwohl sie nur einen kleinen Teil des globalen Energieangebots darstellt, ist die Produktion von Biotreibstoffen in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten stark angewachsen und wird erwartungsgemass weiter zunehmen. Es gibt jedoch Bedenken in Bezug auf mögliche negative Nebeneffekte. Eine ökonomische...
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