Economic analysis of deforestation in Mexico

Barbier, Edward B.; Burgess, Joanne C.

doi:10.1017/s1355770x00000590

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“…Though the effect of population growth rate on land cover dynamics is controversial, elsewhere in many literatures rapid rate of population growth rate one of the root cause for the change of land cover dynamics. According to (Barbier and Burgess 1996), instead of negatively affecting the study concluded that rapid population growth has positive role in availability of resource. On the contrary particularly in the highlands of Ethiopia in which population pressure is intense resulted for resource erosion and degradation (Grepperud 1996).…”

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Analyses of land use and land cover change dynamics using GIS and remote sensing during 1984 and 2015 in the Beressa Watershed Northern Central Highland of Ethiopia

Meshesha

Tripathi

Khare

2016

Model. Earth Syst. Environ.

119

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Analysing the trend of land use/land cover change and its cause and consequence on human livelihoods as well as on the environment is a matter of concern for sustainable development and management of natural resource. Retrospective analysis of land use/land cover dynamics and its driving force has been undertaken using satellite images of Landsat5 TM 1984, Landsat5 TM 1999, and Landsat8 TM 2015 with 30 m spacial resolution for Beressa watershed of Ethiopia. ArcGIS10.2.2 and ERDAS Imagine14 have been used for image processing to produce 6 land uses/land cover classes in the study area. The result of classified image indicated that in the last 3 decades, farm land and settlement area increased @ 71.6 ha/year and 16.8 ha/year respectively. Between 1984 and 1999, forest cover and water body decreased @ 5 ha/year and 0.03 ha/ year respectively but increased @15.6 ha/year and 7.1 ha/ year between 1999 and 2015 respectively. This increase could be possible due to the involvement of local communities to plant trees around their homestead and farm lands. In this program, plantation of indigenous tree species other than eucalyptus (which affect the ecology) was encouraged. The % share of grazing land and barren land has been decreased to 10 and 10.1 % respectively during 1999 that further reduced to 6.1 and 5.2 % during 2015 as against the 12.4 and 13.1 % during 1984 respectively in the Beressa watershed. Rapid population growth demanded more land for cultivation, more trees for domestic fuelwood consumption and more area for settlement had been responsible for drastic change in the land use/land cover change in the last 3 decades in the Beressa watershed. In order to check the loss of area from gazing land and barren land, alternative source income opportunities to the community dwellers may be provided. Therefore, environmental conservation, management and rehabilitation require integrated approach of community development at various levels.

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Analyses of land use and land cover change dynamics using GIS and remote sensing during 1984 and 2015 in the Beressa Watershed Northern Central Highland of Ethiopia

Meshesha

Tripathi

Khare

2016

Model. Earth Syst. Environ.

119

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“…Recent conceptual models have attempted to analyse this behaviour (Barbier 1990(Barbier , 1996Barrett 1991 ;Grepperud 1995). The results suggest that several key factors influence the decision of rural households to invest in improved land management.…”

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The economic determinants of land degradation in developing countries

Barbier

1997

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B

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SUMMARYThe following paper investigates the economic determinants of land degradation in developing countries. The main trends examined are rural households' decisions to degrade as opposed to conserve land resources, and the expansion of frontier agricultural activity that contributes to forest and marginal land conversion. These two phenomena appear often to be linked. In many developing areas, a poor rural household's decision whether to undertake long-term investment in improving existing agricultural land must be weighed against the decision to abandon this land and migrate to environmentally fragile areas. Economic factors play a critical role in determining these relationships. Poverty, imperfect capital markets and insecure land tenure may reinforce the tendency towards short-term time horizons in production decisions, and may bias land use decisions against long-term land management strategies. In periods of commodity booms and land speculation, wealthier households generally take advantage of their superior political and market power to ensure initial access to better quality resources, in order to capture a larger share of the resource rents. Poorer households are confined either to marginal environmental areas where resource rents are limited, or only have access to resources once they are degraded and rents dissipated.Overall trends in land degradation and deforestation are examined, followed by an overview of rural households' resource management decisions with respect to land management, frontier agricultural expansion, and migration from existing agricultural land to frontiers. Finally, the discussion focuses on the scope for policy improvements to reduce economic constraints to effective land management.

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“…For example, population change elsewhere can foment frontier deforestation through demand for forest and food products (Kaimowitz & Angelsen, 1998;. Worldwide, as many as one-half of all deforestation cases involves demand for food, fuelwood or timber from distant populations to some degree, as documented in several research projects in Latin America, including Costa Rica (Rosero-Bixby & Palloni, 1998) and Mexico (Barbier & Burgess, 1996). Some contemporary LUCC literature has framed the causes of tropical deforestation as underlying and proximate Ojima et al, 1994;Geist & Lambin, 2001).…”

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Proximate Population Factors and Deforestation in Tropical Agricultural Frontiers

Carr

2003

Population and Environment

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Forest conversion for agriculture expansion is the most salient signature of human occupation of the earth's land surface. Although population growth and deforestation are significantly associated at the global and regional scales, evidence for population links to deforestation at micro-scales-where people are actually clearing0020forests-is scant. Much of the planet's forest elimination is proceeding along tropical agricultural frontiers. This article examines the evolution of thought on population-environment theories relevant to deforestation in tropical agricultural frontiers. Four primary ways by which population dynamics interact with frontier forest conversion are examined: population density, fertility, and household demographic composition, and in-migration.

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Economic analysis of deforestation in Mexico

Cited by 137 publications

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Analyses of land use and land cover change dynamics using GIS and remote sensing during 1984 and 2015 in the Beressa Watershed Northern Central Highland of Ethiopia

Analyses of land use and land cover change dynamics using GIS and remote sensing during 1984 and 2015 in the Beressa Watershed Northern Central Highland of Ethiopia

The economic determinants of land degradation in developing countries

Proximate Population Factors and Deforestation in Tropical Agricultural Frontiers

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