Land Use and Land Cover Change in Forest Frontiers
The Role of Household Life Cycles
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11637404 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Toovey Walker (0000-0002-5691-7606, Michigan State University), Robert Walker (0000-0002-7763-3784, Michigan State University), Stephen G Perz (0000-0002-7922-6672, University of Florida), Stephen Perz (University of Florida), Marcellus M Caldas (0000-0003-3086-7054, Universidade Federal da Bahia), Marcellus Caldas (0000-0003-4858-4730, Universidade Federal da Bahia), Luiz Guilherme Teixeira Silva (EMBRAPA/CPATU, Belém, Brazil) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 169-199 |
| Publication date | 2002-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Regional Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0160-0176 • E-ISSN: 1552-6925 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/016001760202500202 |
| OpenAlex | W2040770115 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 107 |
| References cited | 46 |
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
Amazon basin · Deforestation · Land cover · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Economic and Environmental Valuation · Income, Poverty, and Inequality
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Out-migration and land-use change in agricultural frontiers
Rural out-migration and smallholder agriculture in the southern Ecuadorian Andes
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Migration Within the Frontier
Forest Clearing in the Ecuadorian Amazon
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Complexity, land-use modeling, and the human dimension
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Rural livelihood trajectories in the central Brazilian Amazon
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Population, Rural Development, and Land Use Among Settler Households in an Agricultural Frontier in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve
People, Land, and Context
Integrated assessment of deforestation drivers and their alignment with subnational climate change mitigation efforts
Can conservation agriculture save tropical forests? The case of minimum tillage in Zambia
Forest use and agriculture in Ucayali, Peru
The use of computer tablets in sociodemographic surveys under unfavorable field conditions – an application in land use and cover change studies in the Amazon
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Forest conversion by the indigenous Kalasha of Pakistan
Rural household demographics, livelihoods and the environment
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A Case Study on Changing Livelihood Strategies of the Community of Ban Non Sao-e Village, Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Thailand
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Land Values in Frontier Settlements of the Brazilian Amazon
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Pressure on the Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve
El trabajo femenino indígena en la economía agrícola familiar en la Amazonía del Ecuador
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Maize boom, bust and beyond
Recent transformations of land-use and land-cover dynamics across different deforestation frontiers in the Brazilian Amazon
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Reforestation reversals and forest transitions
Effects of China’s payment for ecosystem services programs on cropland abandonment
Demo-livelihoods theoretical framework
Proximate Population Factors and Deforestation in Tropical Agricultural Frontiers
Drivers of land use change and household determinants of sustainability in smallholder farming systems of Eastern Uganda
Property Size and Land Cover Change in the Brazilian Amazon
Settler Welfare on Tropical Forest Frontiers in Latin America
Household demographic change and land use/land cover change in the Brazilian Amazon
Family planning and deforestation
Extended families and demographic explanations for land use-cover change in the Brazilian Amazon
Family life course transitions and rural Household economy during China’s market reform
Mapping Process to Pattern in the Landscape Change of the Amazonian Frontier
Contentious Land Change in the Amazon's Arc of Deforestation
The Determinants and Impact of Property Rights
What Drives Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon?
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An Examination of Procedures for Determining the Number of Clusters in a Data Set
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Poverty and prosperity among migrant settlers in the Amazon rainforest frontier of Ecuador
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The causes of tropical deforestation
Land use and land cover dynamics in the Brazilian Amazon
Deforestation, land use, and women's agricultural activities in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Settler households and land-use patterns in the Amazon frontier
Deforestation and Cattle Ranching in the Brazilian Amazon
Household determinants of deforestation by amerindians in honduras
Economic and ecological perspectives on ranching in the Eastern Amazon
Surviving in Rondônia
Subsistence Agriculture and Economic Development
Investment, Interest and Capital
Subsistence Agriculture and Economic Development
The forest transition
The peasant mode of production in the work of A. V. Chayanov
Peasant Economics
Rainforest Cities
Colonist Land-Allocation Decisions, Land Use, and Deforestation in the Ecuadorian Amazon Frontier
The Human Ecology of Tropical Land Settlement in Latin America
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Land Use Patterns Among Small Farmer Settlers in the Northeastern Ecuadorian Amazon
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| Unique citing works | 107 |
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| Citations per year | 4,28 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2026 (26) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 93 |