Household demographic factors as life cycle determinants of land use in the Amazon

By Stephen G. Perz. 2001

181 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change, Nutrition and Dietetics

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. J. Börner
2. K. McSweeney
3. Sven Wunder
4. R. Walker
5. Stephen G. Perz
6. E. Arima
7. C. Simmons
8. Marcellus Marques Caldas

In Global and Planetary Change

1. Sven Wunder
2. J. Börner
3. K. McSweeney
4. R. Walker
5. C. Simmons
6. Marcellus Marques Caldas
7. E. Arima
8. Stephen G. Perz

In Nutrition and Dietetics

1. K. McSweeney
2. Sven Wunder

Citations in the corpus

• Forest Product Sale as Natural Insurance: The Effects of Household Characteristics and the Nature of Shock in Eastern Honduras (2004, background): “All these traits point to households in the early stages of the ‘‘agricultural household life cycle’’ who have young families and have not yet had the time, or access to sufficient labor, to accumulate land and=or capital (Perz 2001).”
• 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): “(3) More recently several empirical studies have supported the development of a demographic household life-cycle framework (McCracken et al., 1999; Moran et al., 2001; Pan et al., 2001; Perz, 2000; Walker, 1999; Walker & Homma, 1996; Walker, Moran, & Anselin, 2000).”
• Turning the curve: A critical review of Kuznets approaches (2012, unknown): “As time passes, households briefly increase deforestation again to consolidate their farms and to facilitate lower labor outlays in the future as the household ages (Perz & Walker, 2002; Perz, 2001).”
• Theorizing Land Cover and Land Use Change: The Peasant Economy of Amazonian Deforestation (2007, background): “In particular, Walker and Homma (1996), Pichón (1997), McCracken et al. (1999), Perz (2001), Brondizio et al. (2002), Walker, Perz, et al. (2002), Walker (2003), Moran, Brondizio, and VanWey (2005), and Pan and Bilsborrow (2005) have called attention to the importance of family labor, to the…”
• Safety Nets, Gap Filling and Forests: A Global-Comparative Perspective (2014, background): “, young families that have not yet accumulated sufficient land and/or physical capital to serve as a buffer (Perz, 2001).”