Miombo woodlands cover vast areas of southern Africa. Of comparatively little interest for export-oriented commercial logging, they are part of a complex system of rural land use that integrates woodland management with crops and livestock. There is also evidence that woodland resources are...

1. Why measure rural livelihoods and environmental dependence? / Arild Angelsen. [et al.] -- 2. Why do field research? / Victoria Reyes-Garcia and William D. Sunderlin -- 3. Composing a research proposal / Arild Angelsen, Carsten Smith-Hall and Helle Overgaard Larsen -- 4. Sampling : who, how...

This paper presents a framework for analyzing tropical deforestation and reforestation using the von Thunen model as its starting point: land is allocated to the use which yields the highest rent, and the rents of various land uses are determined by location. Forest cover change therefore...