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

By R. Walker, Stephen G. Perz, Marcellus Marques Caldas, L. G. M. Silva. 2002

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science

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Factors affecting Income Strategies among households in Tanzanian Coastal Villages: Implications for Development-conservation initiatives (2005, background): “1 in the access to different types of assets is affected by Household structure comprising age of household members, size and the composition within the household [19,25].”
Revisiting Theories of Frontier Expansion in the Brazilian Amazon: A Survey of the Colonist Farming Population in Rondônia’s Post-Frontier, 1992–2002 (2008, unknown): “Other attributes also play a role, like level of household wealth (Alston, Libecap, & Schneider, 1993, 1996; Pinchón, 1997; Walker et al., 2002), length of family residence on the holding (Godoy, Wilkie, & Franks, 1997; Godoy et al., 1998; Pinchón, 1997; Walker et al., 2002), and transportation…”
Household demographic factors as life cycle determinants of land use in the Amazon (2001, background): “Walker et al. (2001) include all four household demographic indicators in a model that pertains to the Amazon, but we focused on farm system choice rather than land use per se, so this model is excluded from Table 1.”
Forest Clearing in Rural Livelihoods: Household-Level Global-Comparative Evidence (2014, background): “Finally, the life-cycle model focuses on the accumulation of land over the life cycle, and that particularly young and land poor households are more likely to clear forests (see Walker et al., 2002).”
Theorizing Land-Cover and Land-Use Change: The Case of Tropical Deforestation (2004, background): “Individuals may seek to minimize risks or take them as the case may be (Walker et al. 2002).”
Theorizing Land Cover and Land Use Change: The Peasant Economy of Amazonian Deforestation (2007, background): “…and Pichón 1997; Pichón 1997; Alston, Libecap, and Muller 2000; Walker, Perz, et al. 2002), length of family residence on the holding (Pichón 1997; Walker et al. 2002a), and access to markets, or transportation costs (Jones et al. 1995; Ozório de Almeida and Campari 1995; Pichón 1997;…”