Impact of Macroeconomic Change on Deforestation in South Cameroon: Integration of Household Survey and Remotely-Sensed Data

By Benoit Mertens, William D. Sunderlin, O. Ndoye, Eric F. Lambin. 2000

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Soil Science

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The dynamics of land‐cover change in western Honduras: exploring spatial and temporal complexity (2002, background): “More recently, scholars have begun to document changes in forest cover that relate to agricultural transformation patterns, and tried to relate these patterns to spatially explicit returns to land use in settings with an established population (Mertens and Lambin, 2000; Mertens et al., 2000).”
The causes of land-use and land-cover change: moving beyond the myths (2001, background): “…land that cultivators clear and the length of their fallows, which determine patterns of regrowth, are tied to such socio-economic triggers as devaluation of the national currency, changes in market prices of agricultural commodities, contract farming, and social conflicts (Mertens et al., 2000).”
The new rurality: Globalization, peasants and the paradoxes of landscapes (2010, background): “Increasingly such communities produce niche items, including non timber or agroforestry products for relatively segmented green markets (SUNDERLIN et al., 2005; DANDY, 2005; BRAY et al., 2004; SCHERR; WHITE; KAIMOWITZ, 2003) and increasingly focus on their potential as players for payment for…”
Location and uptake: integrated household and GIS analysis of technology adoption and land use, with application to smallholder dairy farms in Kenya (2002, background): “As has been pointed out by others, a key to linking household and GIS data is to correctly define the spatial observation unit (Mertens et al., 2000; Geoghegan et al., 2001).”
Driving forces of tropical deforestation: The role of remote sensing and spatial models (2006, unknown): “…Meyer & Turner, 1992; Cropper & Griffiths, 1994; Mather & Needle, 2000) to agricultural policies, economic and market factors (Rudel & Roper, 1997; Mertens et al. , 2000; Klepeis & Vance, 2003); land tenure and property regimes (Mendelsohn & Balick, 1995; Angelsen, 1999; Futemma & Brondizio,…”
Land use change modelling: current practice and research priorities (2004, background): “…research projects in land use analysis has already shown that such approaches can result in innovative results, e.g., recent attempts to link social science research with geographical data (Geoghegan et al. 1998;Walsh et al. 1999;Walker et al. 2000;Mertens et al. 2000;Walsh and Crews-Meyer 2002).”
Biodiversity in small-scale tropical agroforests: a review of species richness and abundance shifts and the factors influencing them (2008, background): “In addition, although market proximity has been linked with deforestation (Mertens et al. 2000), remote homegardens can have lower biodiversity than those close to urban centres (Wezel & Ohl 2005).”
THE EFFECT OF MARKET ECONOMIES ON THE WELL-BEING OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND ON THEIR USE OF RENEWABLE NATURAL RESOURCES (2005, background): “Mertens et al. (2000) found that deforestation in Cameroon rose with increased marketing of food crops.”
Changing Drivers of Deforestation and New Opportunities for Conservation (2009, background): “Throughout Africa, smallholders, driven by increases in numbers and by poor soil fertility, expanded croplands at the expense of forests, sometimes for export crops such as cocoa (Hill 1963) or for foodstuffs to be consumed or marketed in urban areas (Mertens et al. 2000).”