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Land Use and Land Cover Change in Forest Frontiers: The Role of Household Life Cycles

Robert Walker

Department of Geography, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, rwalker{at}pilot.msu.edu

Stephen Perz

Department of Sociology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, sperz{at}mailhost.soc.ufl.edu

Marcellus Caldas

College of Agronomy, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil, mmcaldas{at}ufba.br

Luiz Guilherme Teixeira Silva

EMBRAPA/CPATU, Belém, Brazil, lugui{at}cpatu.embrapa.br

Tropical deforestation remains a critical issue given its present rate and a widespread consensus regarding its implications for the global carbon cycle and biodiversity. Nowhere is the problem more pronounced than in the Amazon basin, home to the world’s largest intact, tropical forest. This article addresses land cover change processes at household level in the Amazon basin, and to this end adapts a concept of domestic life cycle to the current institutional environment of tropical frontiers. In particular, it poses a risk minimization model that integrates demography with market-based factors such as transportation costs and accessibility. In essence, the article merges the theory of Chayanov with the household economy framework, in which markets exist for inputs (including labor), outputs, and capital. The risk model is specified and estimated, using survey data for 261 small producers along the Transamazon Highway in the eastern sector of the Brazilian Amazon.

International Regional Science Review, Vol. 25, No. 2, 169-199 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/016001760202500202
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