This article, which synthesizes the results of more than 140 economic models analyzing the
causes of tropical deforestation, raises significant doubts about many conventional …

Historical accounts of forest cover changes over the last three millennia are compared to
contemporaneous human history, to shed light on factors contributing to large scale changes …

A survey of 209 Chimane Amerindian households in 18 villages in the Bolivian rain forest
was done to examine the role of tenure security and private time preference on the …

Deforestation primarily affects developing countries. Most developing countries share two
characteristics:(1) trade liberalization reforms in the last two decades, and (2) weak property …

We argue that two problems weaken the claims of those who link corruption and the
exploitation of natural resources. The first is conceptual and the second is methodological …

A significant proportion of deforestation in Latin America is caused by smallholders living at
the frontier of modern rural markets. This paper develops a household model that examines …

Analyzing the current status of forest loss and its causes is crucial for understanding and
preparing for future forest changes and the spatial pattern of forest loss. We investigated …

The main objective with this study is to investigate how different household characteristics,
households' perceptions about the security of land use rights, and the households' proximity …

i RELATIONSHIPS AMONG POVERTY, FINANCIAL SERVICES, HUMAN CAPITAL, RISK
COPING, AND NATURAL RESOURCES: EVIDENCE FROM EL SALVADO Page 1 i …

Degradation of common pool resource (CPR) in developing countries has often been traced
to high rate attached by poor people in discounting future flow of benefits, market failure …