Economic Models of Tropical Deforestation: A Review

Economic Models of Tropical Deforestation: A Review
Title Economic Models of Tropical Deforestation: A Review PDF eBook
Author David Kaimowitz
Publisher CIFOR
Pages 153
Release 1998-01-01
Genre Deforestation
ISBN 979876417X

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Types of economic deforestation models. Household and firm-level models. Regional-level models. National and macro-level models. Priority areas for future research.

Agricultural Technologies and Tropical Deforestation

Agricultural Technologies and Tropical Deforestation
Title Agricultural Technologies and Tropical Deforestation PDF eBook
Author Arild Angelsen
Publisher CABI
Pages 440
Release 2001-04-20
Genre Nature
ISBN 9780851998992

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This book has been developed from a workshop on Technological change in agriculture and tropical deforestation organised by the Center for International Forestry Research and held in Costa Rica in March, 1999. It explores how intensification of agriculture affects tropical deforestation using case studies from different geographical regions, using different agricultural products and technologies and in differing demographic situations and market conditions. Guidance is also given on future agricultural research and extension efforts.

The Causes of Tropical Deforestation

The Causes of Tropical Deforestation
Title The Causes of Tropical Deforestation PDF eBook
Author Katrina Brown
Publisher UBC Press
Pages 360
Release 1994
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9780774805117

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Presents econometric analysis of tropical deforestation, quantifying and examining its local and underlying global causes, with discussion of factors such as population, debt, income and poverty, the timber trade, and agricultural development, and regional and country case studies focusing on Asia and Latin America. Of interest to students and professionals in economics, environmental science, and development studies. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Tropical Deforestation

Tropical Deforestation
Title Tropical Deforestation PDF eBook
Author Thomas K. Rudel
Publisher Columbia University Press
Pages 258
Release 1993
Genre Nature
ISBN 9780231080446

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The highly publicized obscenity trial of Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness (1928) is generally recognized as the crystallizing moment in the construction of a visible modern English lesbian culture, marking a great divide between innocence and deviance, private and public, New Woman and Modern Lesbian. Yet despite unreserved agreement on the importance of this cultural moment, previous studies often reductively distort our reading of the formation of early twentieth-century lesbian identity, either by neglecting to examine in detail the developments leading up to the ban or by framing events in too broad a context against other cultural phenomena. Fashioning Sapphism locates the novelist Radclyffe Hall and other prominent lesbians--including the pioneer in women's policing, Mary Allen, the artist Gluck, and the writer Bryher--within English modernity through the multiple sites of law, sexology, fashion, and literary and visual representation, thus tracing the emergence of a modern English lesbian subculture in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Drawing on extensive new archival research, the book interrogates anew a range of myths long accepted without question (and still in circulation) concerning, to cite only a few, the extent of homophobia in the 1920s, the strategic deployment of sexology against sexual minorities, and the rigidity of certain cultural codes to denote lesbianism in public culture.

The Dynamics of Deforestation and Economic Growth in the Brazilian Amazon

The Dynamics of Deforestation and Economic Growth in the Brazilian Amazon
Title The Dynamics of Deforestation and Economic Growth in the Brazilian Amazon PDF eBook
Author Lykke E. Andersen
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 288
Release 2002-12-12
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9780521811972

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A multi-disciplinary team of authors analyze the economics of Brazilian deforestation using a large data set of ecological and economic variables. They survey the most up to date work in this field and present their own dynamic and spatial econometric analysis based on municipality level panel data spanning the entire Brazilian Amazon from 1970 to 1996. By observing the dynamics of land use change over such a long period the team is able to provide quantitative estimates of the long-run economic costs and benefits of both land clearing and government policies such as road building. The authors find that some government policies, such as road paving in already highly settled areas, are beneficial both for economic development and for the preservation of forest, while other policies, such as the construction of unpaved roads through virgin areas, stimulate wasteful land uses to the detriment of both economic growth and forest cover.

Why Forests? Why Now?

Why Forests? Why Now?
Title Why Forests? Why Now? PDF eBook
Author Frances Seymour
Publisher Brookings Institution Press
Pages 389
Release 2016-12-27
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1933286865

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Tropical forests are an undervalued asset in meeting the greatest global challenges of our time—averting climate change and promoting development. Despite their importance, tropical forests and their ecosystems are being destroyed at a high and even increasing rate in most forest-rich countries. The good news is that the science, economics, and politics are aligned to support a major international effort over the next five years to reverse tropical deforestation. Why Forests? Why Now? synthesizes the latest evidence on the importance of tropical forests in a way that is accessible to anyone interested in climate change and development and to readers already familiar with the problem of deforestation. It makes the case to decisionmakers in rich countries that rewarding developing countries for protecting their forests is urgent, affordable, and achievable.

Tropical Forestry Handbook

Tropical Forestry Handbook
Title Tropical Forestry Handbook PDF eBook
Author Laslo Pancel
Publisher Springer
Pages 0
Release 2015-12-14
Genre Technology & Engineering
ISBN 9783642546006

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This book provides a cross-section of all outstanding experience in all fields of tropical forestry under a drastically changing environment induced by climate change. It sheds light on the existing know-how and presents it in a concise and efficient way for the scientist and professional in charge of planning, implementing and evaluating forest resources. The Tropical Forestry Handbook provides proven and/or promising alternative concepts which can be applied to solve organizational, administrative and technical challenges prevailing in the tropics. Presented are state of the art methods in all fields concerning tropical forestry. Emphasize is given to methods which are adapted to- and which safeguard - environmental conditions.