Globalization, Forest Resurgence, and Environmental Politics in El Salvador

By S. Hecht, S. Kandel, I. Gomes, N. Cuéllar, H. Rosa. 2006

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Summary Globalization is often viewed as a driver of deforestation, but there are contexts where it promotes forest recovery. This is the case in El Salvador. In spite of population densities in excess of 200 people per km2, the country, which has been seen as a Malthusian parable of population and ecological catastrophe, is now increasingly wooded. This reflects the impacts of globalization (new flows of labor, capital, commodities, and ideas) which profoundly affected the rural economy, as well as local processes such as civil war (which constrained the agricultural frontier), structural adjustment policies, and agrarian reform.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Global and Planetary Change, Strategy and Management

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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2. Sean Sloan
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2. T. Rudel
3. Sean Sloan
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Citations in the corpus

• Forest Resources Assessment of 2015 shows positive global trends but forest loss and degradation persist in poor tropical countries (2015, background): “El Salvador’s so-called ‘invisible forests’ are therefore allocated largely to the FRA category ‘trees outside of forest’ (Hecht et al., 2006), where observed.”
• Globalisation, accounting and developing countries (2017, background): “Proponents of globalisation, such as the WTO, claim that its policies encourage environmental improvement but their statistical justifications may apply only where ‘weak conditions’ are satisfied, or when limited environment metrics are used (Hecht et al., 2006).”
• Forest Cover Change in Space and Time: Combining the Von Thunen and Forest Transition Theories (2007, unknown): “Combined with a surge in international migration and a boom in remittances (now accounting for 2/3 of the foreign exchange earnings) as well as environmental conservation policies, this has led to a remarkable forest resurgence (Hecht et al., 2006).”
• Designing and Implementing Effective REDD + Policies: A Forest Transition Approach (2013, background): “For example, in El Salvador, the removal of agricultural subsidies and trade liberalization, combined with international migration and higher remittances, have led to a remarkable forest resurgence (Hecht et al. 2006).”
• Guest Editorial, part of a Special Feature on The influence of human demography and agriculture on natural systems in the Neotropics Globalization and Land-Use Transitions in Latin America (2008, background): “For example, in Mexico and El Salvador there is a positive correlation between the level of remittance and forest recovery (Bray and Klepeis 2005, Hecht and Saatchi 2007).”
• International Labor Migration from a Tropical Development Frontier: Globalizing Households and an Incipient Forest Transition (2008, background): “2000) and others (Hecht et al. 2006); however, we call for a more explicit incorporation of globalizing household economies into forest transition theory.”