This paper reviews 91 recent empirical and theoretical studies that analyzed land-use
change at the farm-household level. The review builds on a conceptual framework of land …

A CCESS TO LAND AND THE ABILITY TO MAKE productive use of such land is critical to
poor people worldwide. In addition to its direct effect on households' welfare and their …

Building on the contributions of Mather and others, this paper offers an approach for
developing a more comprehensive theory of the forest transition. We argue that long-run …

This paper focuses on the impact of property rights insecurity on deforestation in the
Brazilian Legal Amazon. Deforestation is considered as a risk management strategy …

Containing the advance of deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia requires understanding the
roles and movements of the actors involved. The importance of different actors varies widely …

This book analyses the potential socio-economic and environmental impacts of the Initiative
for Regional Infrastructure Integration in South America (IIRSA), a continent-wide …

The paper investigates geo‐physical, agro‐ecological, and socio‐economic determinants of
past land use change in two districts of Dak Lak province in the Central Highlands of …

This paper presents a framework for analyzing tropical deforestation and reforestation using
the von Thunen model as its starting point: land is allocated to the use which yields the …

Concern about the future of Amazonian forests is growing as both the extent and rate of
primary forest destruction increase. We combine spatial information on various biophysical …

Security of property rights, or tenure, is central to the economics of development and is
recognized as important for the adoption and implementation of sustainable forest …