Theorizing Land Cover and Land Use Change: The Peasant Economy of Amazonian Deforestation

By Marcellus Marques Caldas, R. Walker, E. Arima, Stephen G. Perz, S. Aldrich, C. Simmons. 2007

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science

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Ranching and the new global range: Amazônia in the 21st century (2009, background): “…Amazonian land cover change, a finding robust in both aggregate and household-level analysis (e.g., Ozório de Almeida, 1992; Reis and Guzmán, 1994; Jones et al., 1995; Pichón, 1997; Pfaff, 1999; Walker et al., 2002; Anderson et al., 2002; Pan et al., 2004; Pfaff et al., 2007; Caldas et al., 2007).”
Forest Clearing in Rural Livelihoods: Household-Level Global-Comparative Evidence (2014, background): “Household labor endowment is an important demographic variable in the land clearing process among smallholders (Caldas et al., 2007) through its influence on the area of land cultivated (Mitinje, Kessy, & Mombo, 2007).”
Linking Land Change with Driving Forces and Actors: Four Conceptual Models (2010, methodology): “They are used either independently or in conjunction with other theories such as Chayanov’s theory of the peasant economy, Boserup’s thesis (Boserup 1965), and historical analysis (Angelsen 1999, Geoghegan et al. 2001, Irwin and Geoghegan 2001, Perz and Walker 2002, Walker 2004, Caldas et al. 2007).”
The new rurality: Globalization, peasants and the paradoxes of landscapes (2010, background): “…studies of peasant frontiers in Amazonia that have emphasized peasant deforestation and the social determinants of secondary successions (see ALDRICH et al., 2006; CALDAS et al., 2007; PERZ; SKOLE, 2003a) have modeled systems that are mainly Chaynaovian in focus, and driven by internal processes.”
Linking Globalization to Local Land Uses: How Eco-Consumers and Gourmands are Changing the Colombian Coffee Landscapes (2013, background): “These include labor availability (Caldas et al., 2007; Cropper, Griffiths, & Mani, 1999), non-farm income opportunities (Rudel et al., 2005), land endowments (Abizaid & Coomes, 2004), institutional factors such as local support for engaging in these market segments, and the reduction in violence in…”