Francisco J Pichón

Biographic Data

ID215602
NAMEFrancisco J Pichón
GIVEN NAMESFrancisco J
FAMILY NAMEPichón
SIGNATUREPICHÓN F J
AFFILIATIONSAgricultural and Environment Division of the Southern Africa Department, World Bank’s
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS115
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1997
H-INDEX4

  • Settler households and land-use patterns in the Amazon frontier

    Open AccessFrancisco J Pichón, Francisco PichónARTICLEWorld Development1997Cited by: 50References: 6

  • Colonist Land-Allocation Decisions, Land Use, and Deforestation in the Ecuadorian Amazon Frontier

    Francisco J Pichón, Francisco PichónARTICLEEconomic Development and Cultural…1997Cited by: 41

  • Ecuador’s Tropical Forest Frontiers

    Open AccessFrancisco J Pichón, Francisco Pichón et al.ARTICLEIberoamericana – Nordic Journal…1996

    Iberoamericana – Revista Nórdica de Estudios de Latinoamérica y el Caribe, es una revista académica arbitrada, interdisciplinaria y bilingüe. Es administrada por el Instituto de Estudios Latinoamericanos de la Universidad de Estocolmo en colaboración con otras universidades nórdicas con el objetivo de presentar investigación de alta calidad sobre América Latina.La revista publica artículos originales enfocados en temas relacionados con las cienci…

  • Land-Use Strategies in the Amazon Frontier

    Francisco J Pichón, Francisco PichónARTICLEHuman Organization1996

    This article uses farm-level data to assess the role of ecological factors, household characteristics, and policy factors in shaping overall land-use strategies among settler farmers in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The survey data which form the basis for the analysis were collected by the author in 1990 from a probability sample of 450 colonist households. A descriptive cluster analysis is used to highlight the differences across and within the observ…

  • Settler agriculture and the dynamics of resource allocation in frontier environments

    Open AccessFrancisco J Pichón, Francisco PichónARTICLEHuman Ecology1996Cited by: 11References: 31

  • Agricultural Settlement and Ecological Crisis in the Ecuadorian Amazon Frontier

    Open AccessFrancisco J Pichón, Francisco PichónARTICLEPolicy Studies Journal1992Cited by: 13References: 6

    This article discusses several structural factors in the policy environment of Ecuador thought to determine the process of occupation by agricultural colonists of the country's segment of Amazonia and the emerging land settlement patterns in the region. These factors are fundamentally concerned with (a) national sovereignty interests over remote, peripheral territories characterized by low population density and ill‐defined land ownership, (b) th…