Population pressure, deforestation, and land degradation: A case study from the dominican republic

Professional Geographer

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 25-40

  Sambrook, Richard A ^a   Pigozzi, Bruce W ^b   Thomas, Robert N ^b  

^a EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deforestation; Dominican republic; Land cover land use change; Land degradation; Population pressure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002416496     PISSN: 00330124     EISSN: 14679272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0033-0124.00142     Document Type: Article

References (59)

1. Abeu, Simeon, and Joaquin Hernandez. 1983. Plan Sierra: Encuesta para obtener los datos necesarios a fin de aplicar la globalidad y otras acciones. San José de las Matas: Plan Sierra (Mimeographed).
2. Allen, Julia, and Douglas F. Barnes. 1985. The causes of deforestation in developing countries. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 75: 163-84.
3. Antonini, Gustavo A. 1971. Peasant agriculture in northwestern Dominican Republic. Journal of Tropical Areas 32:1-10.
4. Antonini, Gustavo A. 1973. Evolución de la agrícola tradicional en Santo Domingo. Eme-Eme Estudios Dominicanos 9:96-122.
5. Antonini, Gustavo A., K.C. Ewel, and J. J. Ewel. 1974. Ecological modelling of a tropical watershed: A guide to regional planning. In Spatial Aspects of Development, B. S. Hoyle, 51-75. New York: JohnWiley.
6. Antonini, Gustavo A., K. C. Ewel and H. M. Tupper. 1975. Population and Energy Systems Analysis of Resource Utilization in the Dominican Republic. Gainsville: University of Florida Press.
7. Arkin, Herbert, and Raymond R. Colton. 1963. Tables for Statisticians, 2nd New York: Barnes & Noble, p. 145.
8. Bernard, Frank E. 1977. Population pressure: A preliminary assessment with special reference to Kenya. East African Geographical Review 15:43-68.
9. Bernard, Frank E., and Derrick J. Thom. 1981. Population pressure and human carrying capacity in selected locations of Machakos and Kitui Districts. Journal of Developing Areas 15: 381-406.
10. Bernard, Frank E., David J. Campbell and Derrick J. Thom. 1989. Carrying capacity of the eastern ecological gradient of Kenya. National Geographic Research 5: 399-421.
11. Bilsborrow, R. E. 1987. Population pressure and agricultural development in developing countries: A conceptual framework and recent evidence. World Development 15:183-302.
12. Blaikie, Piers, and Harold Brookfield. 1987. Land Degradation and Society. New York: Methuen.
13. Boserup, Ester. 1965. The Conditions of Agricultural Growth: The Economics of Agrarian Change under Population Pressure. London: Allen and Unwin Ltd.
14. Boserup, Ester. 1981. Population and Technological Change: A Study of Long-Term Trends. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
15. Bretón, Pedro A. 1978. Plan de Desarrollo La Sierra. Santo Domingo: Secretaría de Estado de Agricultura.
16. Brookfield, Harold C. 1972. Intensification and disintensification in Pacific agriculture: A theoretical approach. Pacific Viewpoint 13:30-48.
17. Brookfield, Harold C. 1984. Intensification revisitPacific Viewpoint 25:1-54.
18. Brothers, Timothy. 1997a. Rapid destruction of a lowland tropical forest, Los Haitises, Dominican Republic. Ambio 26(8): 551-52.
19. Brothers, Timothy. 1997b. Deforestation in the Dominican Republic: A village view. Environmental Conservation 24(3): 213-23.
20. Dominican Republic. 1966. Quinto Censo Nacional Agropecuario 1960. Santo Domingo: Oficina Nacional de Estadística (ONE).
21. Dominican Republic. 1975. Septo Censo Nacional Agropecuario 1970, 2a. Vol. 1. Resumen General: País y Provincias. Santo Domingo: Oficina Nacional de Estadística (ONE).
22. Dominican Republic. 1978. Quinto Censo Nacional de Población, 9 y 10 de enero de 1970: Características generales. 2a. Vol. 2. Santo Domingo: Oficina Nacional de Estadística (ONE).
23. Dominican Republic. 1984. Septo Censo Nacional de Población y Vivienda 1981. Santo Domingo: Oficina Nacional de Estadística (ONE).
24. Geilfus, Frans. 1984. Mapa de cobertura vegetal. (Scale 1:100,000). San José de las Matas: Plan Sierra.
25. Geilfus, Frans. 1994. Agricultural Involution in the Dominican Republic: The Dynamics of Peasant Farm Systems in a Confined Environment. Ph.D. dissertation, Université Catholique de Louvain.
26. Grupo de Trabajo ‘La Sierra.’ 1977. Plan Sierra: Propuesta para un plan de desarrollo rural integrado en la sierra, República Dominicana. La Herradura, Santiago: Centro de Investigaciónes Económicas y Alimenticias y UNICA. Mimeographed.
27. Hartshorn, G., G. Antonini, R. DuBois, D. Harcharik, S. Heckadon, H. Newton, C. Quesada, J. Shores, and G. Stables. 1981. Country Environmental Profile: A Field Study. McLean, VA: JRB Associates.
28. Hecht, S., and A. Cockburn. 1989. The Fate of the Forest. London: Verso.
29. ICIMOD 1997. Research Initiatives. 1996 Annual Report, pp. 22-27. Kathmandu, Nepal: International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
30. Ives, Jack, and D. C. Pitt, eds. 1988. Deforestation: Social Dynamics in Watersheds and Mountain Ecosystems. London/New York: Routledge.
31. Johnston, R. J. 1978. Multivariate Statistical Analysis in Geography: A Primer on the General Linear Model. London/New York: Longman
32. Kemph, Gary, and Abel Hernandez. 1987. Evolutionary conservation project planning and implementation: NARMA in the Dominican Republic. In Sustainable Resource Development in the ThirdWorld, ed., D. D. Southgate, and J. F. Disinger, 113-28. Boulder/London:Westview Press.
33. Lang. James. 1988. Inside Development in Latin America: A Report from the Dominican Republic, Colombia, and Brazil. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
34. Little, Peter D., and Michael M. Horowitz, with A. Endre Nyerges. 1987. Lands at Risk in the Third World: Local Level Perspectives. Boulder: Westview Press.
35. Meyer, Carrie A. 1989. Land Reform in Latin America: The Dominican Case. New York: Praeger.
36. Moran, Emilio F. 1993. Deforestation and land use in the Brazilian Amazon. Human Ecology 21(1): 1-21.
37. Nations, J. D. 1988. Tropical Rainforest: Endangered Environment. New York: FranklinWatts.
38. Olson, K., V. Rudolph, L. James, M. Koelling, and J. Whitmore. 1984. A National Forest Management Plan for the Dominican Republic. East Lansing: CRIES/MSU/USAID.
39. Pichón, Francisco J. 1997. Colonist land-allocation decisions, land use, and deforestation in the Ecuadorian Amazon Frontier. Economic Development and Culture Change 45(4): 707-44.
40. Poole, M.A., and P.N. O’Farrell. 1971. The assumption of the linear regression model. Transactions of the IBG: 145-58.
41. Ravelo, Sebastián, and Pedro Juan del Rosario. 1986. Impacto de los dominicanos ausentes en el financiamento rural. Santiago: Centro de Investigacíones— PUCMM Facultad de Ciencias Socíales y Administrativas, Departamento de Economia. (mimeographed).
42. Rocheleau, Dianne E. 1984. An Ecological Analysis of Soil andWater Conservation in Hillslope Farming Systems: Plan Sierra, Dominican Republic. Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Florida.
43. Rosario, Pedro Juan del. 1989. Economía rural de la República Dominicana: Una nueva visión de los problemas agrarios. Eme Eme: Estudios Dominicanos 83:17-76.
44. Roth, Linda. 1997. Traditional Knowledge and Management of Subtropical Dry Forest:AStudy of Resource Use, Landscape Change, and Biodiversity in a Rural Area of the Dominican Republic. Ph.D. Dissertation, Clark University.
45. Ryder, Roy. 1994. Land evaluation for steepland agriculture in the Dominican Republic. The Geographical Journal 160(1): 74-86.
46. Sachtler, Manfr1974. Some results of the forest inventory in the Dominican Republic and their implications for future development of forestry. Applied Geography and Development 12:111-32.
47. Sader, S.A., T. Sever, J. C. Smoot, and M. Richards. 1994. Forest change estimates for the northern Petén Region of Guatemala, 1986-1990. Human Ecology 22(3): 317-32.
48. Sagawe, Thorsten. 1991. Deforestation and the behavior of households in the Dominican Republic. Geography 76(4): 304-14.
49. Sambrook, Richard Alan. 1992. Population Pressure, Deforestation, Land Degradation and Population Redistribution in the Plan Sierra Region of the Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic. Ph.D. Dissertation, Michigan State University.
50. Schmidt-Vogt, Dietrich. 1998. Defining degradation: The impacts of swidden on forests in Northern Thailand. Mountain Research and Development 18(2): 135-49.
51. Southgate, Douglas D., and John F. Disinger, eds. 1987. Sustainable Resource Development in the Third World. Boulder/London:Westview Press.
52. Southgate, Douglas D., and Morris Whitaker. 1992. Promoting resource degradation in Latin America: Tropical deforestation, soil erosion, and coastal ecosystem disturbance in Ecuador. Economic Development and Culture Change 40(4): 787-806.
53. Stocking, Mike. 1987. Measuring land degradation. In Land Degradation and Society, Piers Blaikie, and Harold Brookfield, 49-63. London/New York: Methuen.
54. Turner, B. L. 1997. The sustainability principle in global agendas: Implications for understanding land-use/cover change. The Geographical Journal 163(2): 133-40.
55. Werge, R. W. 1974. La agricultura de ‘Tumba y Quema’ en la República Dominicana. Eme-Eme Estudios Dominicanos 13:47-56.
56. Wolpert, Julian. 1966. Migration as an adjustment to environmental stress. Journal of Social Issues 22: 92-102.
57. Yunén, Rafael Emilio, 1986. Las presíones de la población rural sobre los ecosistemas naturales. Paper read at the Coloquio interdisciplinario ‘ciencias sociales’ y problemática ambiental: Una visión crítica, 28 de noviembre, Universidad APEC. (Mimeographed.)
58. Zwiefler, Mark O., Michael A. Gold, and Robert N. Thomas. 1994. Land use evolution in hill regions of the Dominican Republic. The Professional Geographer 46(1): 39-52.
59. Zurick, David N. 1995. Preserving paradise. The Geographical Review 85(2): 157-72.