The study addresses the two intertwined challenges of rural poverty and forest degradation in rural areas of Zagros, Iran. For a watershed in Zagros, a quantitative analysis based on the sustainable livelihood framework approach is used to identify household livelihood strategies, analyze...

A deterministic, non-linear dynamic bio-economic model is developed to analyze interactions between goats and forests under different management regimes at a village level in Zagros, Iran. Data for the study were mainly obtained through participatory rural appraisal, village level survey, forest...

Adjacency constraints along with even flow harvest constraints are important in long term forest planning. Simulated annealing (SA) is previously successfully applied when addressing such constraints. The objective of this paper was to assess the performance of SA under three new methods of...

This paper examines the causes of agricultural land expansion and deforestation in Tanzania. In the theoretical section, two different -and partly contradicting- sets of hypotheses are outlined.

This paper examines the causes of agrocultural land expansion and deforestation in Tanzania. In the theoretical part, two different - and partly contradicting - sets of hypotheses are outlined. These are based on a subsistence approach, emphasizing the food or income requiremenrs of farm...

The starting point of this paper is a universally observed tendency of common property to be replaced by private property in traditional agriculture. The paper seeks to explore the forces behind such a development. Four different theoretical approaches are discussed: neo-institutional economics,...