and the environment in developing Asian economies -- 4. Deforestation and upland land degradation in an open economy …

This book explores the relationship between the land use choices of small-scale farmers and the rate of deforestation … policy prescriptions to address this. The major source of deforestation in the Amazon is the use of slash … deforestation dramatically. The author uses new, original case studies of farms in the area to estimate the probability of the …

This provocative new book presents the results of twenty years of research on deforestation in the Amazon. By carefully … observing the changing character of human settlements and their association with deforestation over such a prolonged period, the … author is able to reject much of the "perceived wisdom". He skillfully dissects various models of deforestation and provides …

. This is due to concerns over continued deforestation, as well as the long-term environmental and economic resources these …

competing visions of benefit-cost analysis', Land Economics, 85, 3-23. -- Bewley, T.F. (1981), 'A critique of Tiebout's theory …), 'Profit maximizing communities and the theory of local public expenditures', Journal of Urban Economics, 5, 263 …', Journal of Urban Economics, 7, 102-18. -- Tiebout, C. (1956), 'A pure theory of local public expenditures,' Journal of …