Land Use and Land Cover Change in Forest Frontiers: The Role of Household Life Cycles
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Tropical deforestation remains a critical issue given its present rate and a widespread consensus regarding its implications for the global carbon cycle and biodiversity. Nowhere is the problem more pronounced than in the Amazon basin, home to the world’s largest intact, tropical forest. This article addresses land cover change processes at household level in the Amazon basin, and to this end adapts a concept of domestic life cycle to the current institutional environment of tropical frontiers. In particular, it poses a risk minimization model that integrates demography with market-based factors such as transportation costs and accessibility. In essence, the article merges the theory of Chayanov with the household economy framework, in which markets exist for inputs (including labor), outputs, and capital. The risk model is specified and estimated, using survey data for 261 small producers along the Transamazon Highway in the eastern sector of the Brazilian Amazon.
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In many frontier areas, households reside only temporarily on their lands, moving on to new frontiers where they deforest new areas.
“In many frontier areas, households reside only temporarily on their lands, moving on to new frontiers where they deforest new areas (Schmink andWood 1992, Walker et al. 2002).”
From Company–Community Logging Contracts in Amazonian Settlements: Impacts on Livelihoods and NTFP Harvests (2009) · cites this paper as Walker et al. 2002
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- Authors
- Walker, R., Perz, S., Caldas, M., & Silva, L. G. T.
- Affiliations
- Michigan State University (US)
- University of Florida (US)
- Universidade Federal da Bahia (BR)
- Embrapa (BR)
- Venue
- International Regional Science Review
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2002-04
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 169-199
- ISSN
- 0160-0176 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-6925
- OpenAlex
- W2040770115
- Cited by
- 254
- References
- 1
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- FWCI
- 10.20
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.rcaap.pt
- Locations
- International Regional Science Review (publishedVersion)
- Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
- Keywords
- land use and land cover change, tropical deforestation, forest frontier, family life cycle, demography, transportation costs, accessibility (transport and spatial geography), small producers, Transamazon Highway, Brazilian Amazon
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