Download or read book Land Holding and Land Cover use on an Amazonian Agricultural Frontier written by Stephen Peter Aldrich and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Land Holding and Land Cover use on an Amazonian Agricultural Frontier written by Stephen Peter Aldrich and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Titles Conflict and Land Use written by Lee J. Alston and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-05-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Amazon, the world's largest rain forest, is the last frontier in Brazil. The settlement of large and small farmers, squatters, miners, and loggers in this frontier during the past thirty years has given rise to violent conflicts over land as well as environmental duress. Titles, Conflict, and Land Use examines the institutional development involved in the process of land use and ownership in the Amazon and shows how this phenomenon affects the behavior of the economic actors. It explores the way in which the absence of well-defined property rights in the Amazon has led to both economic and social problems, including lost investment opportunities, high costs in protecting claims, and violence. The relationship between land reform and violence is given special attention. The book offers an important application of the New Institutional Economics by examining a rare instance where institutional change can be empirically observed. This allows the authors to study property rights as they emerge and evolve and to analyze the effects of Amazon development on the economy. In doing so they illustrate well the point that often the evolution of economic institutions will not lead to efficient outcomes. This book will be important not only to economists but also to Latin Americanists, political scientists, anthropologists, and scholars in disciplines concerned with the environment. Lee Alston is Professor of Economics, University of Illinois, and Research Associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research. Gary Libecap is Professor of Economics and Law, University of Arizona, and Research Associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research. Bernardo Mueller is Assistant Professor, Universidade de Brasilia.
Download or read book Characterizing Patterns of Agricultural Land Use in Amazonia by Merging Satellite Imagery and Census Data written by Jeffrey A. Cardille and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geographic Patters of Land Use and Lande Intensity in the Brazilian Amazon written by Kenneth M. Chomitz and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 90 percent of agricultural land in the Brazilian Amazon is used for pasture, or has been cleared and left unused. Pasture on average is used with very low productivity. Analysis based on census tract data shows that agricultural conversion of forested areas in the wetter western Amazon would be even less productive, using current technologies.
Download or read book Shaping Land Use Along an Agricultural Frontier written by Julie Witcover and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Settlement Formation and Land Cover and Land Use Change written by Marcellus Marques Caldas and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Landsat and Sentinel 2 Based Analysis of Land Use in the Brazilian Amazon The Agricultural Frontier of Novo Progresso written by Benjamin Jakimow and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Development of Integrated Prognostic Models of Land Use land Cover Change written by Yushuang Zhou and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Land Markets Migration and Forest Conservation on an Amazonian Frontier in San Martin Peru written by Timothy Holland and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Region of San Martin, Peru, has a rate of deforestation that is among the highest in the Amazon basin. The forest being lost in that area, on the eastern slope of the Andes mountain range, is rich in biodiversity, making this area of particular concern for forest conservation. As with frontier areas generally, the dynamics of change in San Martin-demographic, economic, and land cover-are complex and fast moving. In this dissertation, I draw on information from 194 interviews with smallholder farmers in three districts of San Martin in order to illustrate and analyze how these frontier areas have changed through time and what those changes mean for smallholder livelihoods and for the potential effectiveness of forest conservation activities. I find patterns of change in all three frontier districts that are generally consistent with each other, despite the fact that the districts themselves were settled decades apart (initial settlement times mid-1970s, mid-1990s, late-1990s/early-2000s, respectively). In all cases, the great majority of household heads in these communities are migrants from the Peruvian sierra or else are the children of migrants. For migrants arriving to these areas, there is a strong first-mover advantage; although arriving early to the frontier entails hardships in terms of the absence of services and difficult travel, those individuals who arrived earliest acquired the largest land parcels and were best positioned to take advantage of land price increases as the frontier developed. An analysis of land markets in these districts demonstrated several consistent patterns: the land parcels being sold over time tended to become smaller, less forested, and more expensive per hectare. The overall result of these changes was that the opportunity cost to landholders of sparing any remaining forest increased rapidly through time as households paid higher prices for increasingly small parcels. Average parcel sizes declined through time in all three districts, suggesting that a process of land consolidation-as observed in the hollow frontier pattern-is not happening in these coffee-producing landscapes. The lack of land consolidation by larger landowners in these landscapes may be a result of the nature of coffee itself as a crop: it is generally labour-intensive and may have more limited returns to scale than activities such as cattle-grazing and soy cultivation. In the last results chapter of this dissertation, I document the impact of a coffee rust outbreak that took place between seasons of fieldwork. The response to the outbreak illustrates the importance of legacies of variety choice. Additionally, by creating a severe drop in the diversity of coffee varieties being planted, it demonstrates a potential risk to the ability of the local agricultural system to adapt to future changes. I conclude the dissertation with suggestions for how these results may be useful to forest conservation policy. I highlight the degree to which patterns of land cover change on frontier areas are in fact structured by processes far away in migrant areas of origin; informational campaigns may be useful in reducing the most problematic forms of land speculation. I also raise questions about the effectiveness of payments-based forest conservation programs in frontier areas where payment levels are unlikely to be able to keep up with rapidly increasing land prices. Appealing to community institutions and social pressure may in fact prove more effective than payments-based structures in this context. Lastly, given the rapid nature of change in these frontier areas-as in many others-I emphasize the importance in forest conservation planning of making as much effort as possible to anticipate patterns of future change and to plan for them in the design of any policy or program. " --
Download or read book The Political Ecology of Land Conversion at the Tri national Border of Southwest Amazonia written by Angelica Maria Almeyda Zambrano and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smallholders have long been blamed for the conversion of large areas of forest. There is insufficient understanding, however, of how development policies and socioeconomic conditions influence smallholders' land use decisions. To address this gap, with the help of research and logistical assistance from numerous individuals and institutions as described in the acknowledgments sections, I conducted a large-scale interdisciplinary research project to investigate land use and land cover dynamics in the 101,463 km2 tri-national Amazonian frontier of Peru, Brazil, and Bolivia. This setting provided a unique opportunity for the study of human environment interactions as it allows the analysis of varying development policies while holding significant variation in biophysical variables constant. For this assessment I incorporated multivariate statistical analysis of national development policies and socioeconomic data from 320 households located across the study area with multitemporal spatial analysis of deforestation and infrastructure development using remote sensing and geographic information systems. The core of this dissertation is comprised of three studies (Chapters II through IV) which each focus on unique spatial and temporal scales ranging from the landscape to the household. Chapter II employs remote sensing data from the entire study area (i.e., the landscape scale) and for the years 1990, 2000, and 2007 to understand the drivers of change in forest cover. This study highlighted the impact of changes underway today in Amazonian frontier regions, such as rapid road development, market growth, and decreasing forest cover. Results showed that travel time to the nearest market dominated deforestation dynamics, with infrastructure development representing decreased travel cost to these markets. Chapter III integrates landscape and household scales to understand the drivers of household landholding size, land use, and rates of deforestation. Results showed that while the areas of crops and fallow forests are poorly explained, the area of pasture was well predicted by the years of landholding occupancy and the household travel time to market. The area in forest was highly correlated with the landholding size and the average travel time to the nearest intact forest. Chapter IV concentrates the analysis at the household scale. Results showed that market access, defined as the temporal proximity to the nearest market, was equally as important as household socioeconomic variables for explaining deforestation. In particular, three clear livelihood strategies were identifiable among the households: crop, cattle, and forest based livelihood strategies. Cattle based livelihoods were stronger for households closer to the market. However, households on all three sides of the border showed reliance on a cattle based livelihood strategy. The proportion of landholding cleared was higher at lower travel times to the nearest market, and for households with livelihoods strategies based on cattle, while households with forest based livelihood strategies had a lower percentage deforested. Results from this dissertation are directly applicable to improving the theoretical understanding of human-environment interactions in dynamic frontier landscapes, as well as for applied environmental conservation and sustainable development efforts in the tropics.
Download or read book Government and the Economy on the Amazon Frontier written by Robert R. Schneider and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Balancing Agricultural Development and Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon written by Andrea Cattaneo and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2002 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Frontier Making in the Amazon written by Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the outcomes of more than ten years of research in the southern tracts of the Amazon region, and addresses the expansion of the agricultural frontier, consolidation of the agribusiness-based economy, and expansion of regional infrastructure (roads, dams, urban centres, etc). It combines extensive empirical evidence with the international literature on frontier-making and regional Amazonian development, and adopts a critical politico-geographical perspective that will benefit scholars in various other disciplines. This book is intended to push the current theoretical and methodological boundaries regarding the controversies and impacts of agribusiness in the region. A new international scientific network, led by the author, is investigating the broader context of the themes analysed here.
Download or read book Amazonia Agriculture and Land Use Research written by Susanna B. Hecht and published by CIAT. This book was released on 1982 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agricultural Intensification by Smallholders in the Western Brazilian Amazon written by Stephen A. Vosti and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research site and sample characteristics; Multivariate analysis; A fram-level bioeconomic model.
Download or read book Determinants of Land Use in Amazonia written by Kenneth M. Chomitz and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wetter areas of the Amazon basin exhibit lower rates of agricultural conversion. Previous analyses, using relatively aggregate data on land cover, have been unable to determine the extent to which this reflects limited access versus unfavorable agroclimatic conditions. This article uses census-tract level data for the Brazilian Amazon to relate forest conversion and pasture productivity to precipitation, soil quality, infrastructure and market access, proximity to past conversion, and protection status. The probability that land is used for agriculture or intensively stocked with cattle declines markedly with increasing rainfall, other things equal.
