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Technological change and tropical deforestation: a perspective at the household level

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2002

Daan P. Van Soest ,
Erwin H. Bulte ,
Arild Angelsen  and
G. Cornelis van Kooten
Daan P. Van Soest
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, Tilburg University, Netherlands.
Erwin H. Bulte
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, Tilburg University, PO Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, Netherlands. Fax: +31 13 466 3042. Email: e.h.bulte@kub.nl
Arild Angelsen
Affiliation:
Department of Economics and Social Sciences, Agricultural University of Norway, Ås, Norway.
G. Cornelis van Kooten
Affiliation:
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
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Abstract

We analyse the effects of technological change in agriculture on forest clearing by households in developing countries. The possible effects are found to be many and diverse, depending on the type of change and the institutional context. We conclude that agricultural intensification is certainly not the panacea that some believe it to be.

Type
Theory and Applications
Information
Environment and Development Economics , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , May 2002 , pp. 269 - 280
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

We would like to thank three anonymous referees and participants at the CIFOR workshop on ‘Technological Change in Agriculture and Deforestation’, CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica, 11–13 March 1999, for comments on a pervious version of this paper. Remaining errors are our own.