Author : Robert R. Schneider
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 33,40 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821333532
World Bank Environment Paper No. 11.Addresses issues of local governance in frontier economies in relation to environmental and political sustainability. Covers problems of mining, farming, and disincentives.
Author : João S. Campari
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 39,68 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1845425510
This provocative new book presents the results of twenty years of research on deforestation in the Amazon. By carefully observing the changing character of human settlements and their association with deforestation over such a prolonged period, the author is able to reject much of the 'perceived wisdom'.
Author : Hernán Cortés-Salas
Publisher : IICA
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 16,14 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Forest conservation
ISBN : 9789290392859
Author : William F. Hyde
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 38,33 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415518288
Concluding chapters review the roles of the newer institutional landowners, of smaller private and farm landowners, and of public agencies.
Author : Lykke E. Andersen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,59 MB
Release : 2002-12-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521811972
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.
Author : Stephen A. Vosti
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 34,71 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0896291324
Research site and sample characteristics; Multivariate analysis; A fram-level bioeconomic model.
Author : William Ascher
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,6 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801860966
Drawing on 16 case studies from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, reveals the complex political and programmatic reasons why government officials in developing countries often willfully adopt wasteful natural resource policies.
Author : Sérgio Margulis
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 20,73 MB
Release :
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780821356913
Annotation This title studies the role of cattle ranching its dynamic and profitability in the expansion of deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia. It provides a social evaluation of deforestation in this region and presents and compares a number of different scenarios and proposed recommendations.
Author : Andrea Cattaneo
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 19,53 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0896291308
Since the 1970s, federal policies promoting migration and encouraging agricultural development of large farms, logging, and ranching have led to the deforestation of vast areas of the Amazon rainforest.Though these policies have largely been replaced, deforestation continues. What effects do current macroeconomic and regional policies and events have on deforestation and on the well-being of settlers on the agricultural frontier? This report identifies the links between the agriculture and logging sectors in the Amazon, economic growth, poverty alleviation, and natural resource degradation in the region and in Brazil as a whole.It considers the effects of currency devaluation, building roads and other infrastructure in the Amazon, property rights, adoption of technological change, and fiscal incentives and disincentives to deforest.The results are sometimes counterintuitive, but shed new light on why slowing deforestation is so difficult and on the trade-offs between environmental and economic goals.
Author : Mohan Munasinghe
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 35,61 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821332252
The importance of violence as a contributory factor to urban poverty in Jamaica has gone largely unresearched. This paper outlines the results of a study undertaken by the World Bank and the government of Jamaica to focus on the issue. The study uses a participatory urban appraisal methodology in five poor urban areas, mainly in Kingston, to identify and understand local community perceptions of four different aspects of violence: its causes; its interrelationship with poverty; its impact on employment, economic and social infrastructure, and local social institutions; and ways in which government, communities, households, and individuals can work to reduce it.
