Ideology, social theory, and paradigms -- Human evolution and socio-environmental outcomes -- Ideology and the environment: from isolation to integration -- Competing views on the population-resource balance -- Economic growth: for worse or for better? -- Towards a new concept and definition of...

How does an oil boom affect the forest cover of tropical oil-exporting countries? What macroeconomic linkages and policies are decisive? A comparison of research findings on long-run land-use changes in eight tropical developing economies reveals that the direct physical impacts of the oil...

This article focuses mainly on the five primary case study countries. For forest impacts, the concentration is on forest conversion to other land uses and deforestation, defined as a (temporary or permanent) removal of trees to less than 10 percent crown cover, which is similar to the Food and...

Field research done by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) in 1997-98 provides the first regionally representative assessment of population and migration patterns, changes in cropping decisions, and household farm labor allocation in more than a decade in Cameroon's Center and...