Fire use and prevention by traditional households in the Brazilian Amazon

Ecological Economics

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 117-130

  Bowman, Maria S ^a   Amacher, Gregory S ^a   Merry, Frank D ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brazilian Amazon; Fire prevention; Floresta Nacional do Tapaj s; Household model

Indexed keywords

BURNING; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FIRE; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LAND MANAGEMENT; MODELING; NATURE RESERVE; NONTIMBER FOREST PRODUCT; PLANTATION; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; WILDFIRE;

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL; PARA [BRAZIL]; SOUTH AMERICA; TAPAJOS NATIONAL FOREST;

EID: 48549090122     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2007.12.003     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Alencar, A., Nepstad, D., Mendonza, E., Brown, I., Lefevre, P., 1997. Uso do fogo na Amazônia: Estudos de caso ao longo do arco de desmatamento. World Bank, unpublished report.
2. Alston L.J., Libecap G.D., and Mueller B. Titles, Conflict, and Land Use: the Development of Property Rights and Land Reform on the Brazilian Amazon Frontier (1999), University of Michigan Press 227 pp.
3. Angelsen A. Agricultural expansion and deforestation: modeling the impact of population, market forces and property rights. Journal of Development Economics 58 (1999) 185-218
4. Amacher G.S., Hyde W.F., and Joshee B.H. The adoption of consumption technologies under uncertainty: the case of improved stoves in Nepal. Journal of Economic Development 17 2 (1992) 93-105
5. Amacher G.S., Ersado L., Grebner D.L., and Hyde W.F. Disease, microdams and natural resources in Tigray, Ethiopia: impacts on productivity and labour supplies. Journal of Development Studies 40 6 (2004) 122-145
6. Barrett C.B. Stochastic food prices and slash-and-burn agriculture. Environment and Development Economics 4 2 (1999) 161-176
7. Bluffstone R.A. The effect of labor market performance on deforestation in developing countries under open access: an example from rural Nepal. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 29 1 (1995) 42-63
8. Campos M.T., and Nepstad D.C. Smallholders, the Amazon's new conservationists. Conservation Biology 20 5 (2006) 1553-1556
9. Carvalho G., Moutinho P., Nepstad D., Mattos L., and Santilli M. An Amazon perspective on the forest-climate connection: opportunity for climate mitigation, conservation and development?. Environment, Development and Sustainability 6 (2004) 163-174
10. Caviglia-Harris J.L. Household production and forest clearing: the role of farming in the development of the Amazon. Environment and Development Economics 9 (2004) 181-202
11. Caviglia-Harris J.L., and Sills E.O. Land use and income diversification: comparing traditional and colonist populations in the Brazilian Amazon. Agricultural Economics 32 3 (2005) 221-237
12. Cochrane M.A., and Schulze M.D. Forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon. Conservation Biology 12 5 (1998) 948-950
13. Costa, L., 2004. Sob o fogo cruzado das campanhas: ambientalismo, comunicação e agricultura familiar na prevenção ao fogo acidental na Amazônia. Tese de doutoramento. Belém: NAEA/UFPA. Mimeo.
14. de Mendonça M.J.C., Vera Diaz M.D.C., Nepstad D., da Motta R.S., Alencar A., Gomes J.C., and Ortiz R.A. The economic cost of the use of fire in the Amazon. Ecological Economics 49 1 (2004) 89-105
15. Fafchamps M. Sequential labor decisions under uncertainty: an estimable model of West-African farmers. Econometrica 61 5 (1993) 1173-1197
16. Fearnside P.M. Greenhouse gases from deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia: net committed emissions. Climatic Change 35 (1997) 321-360
17. Godoy R., Jacobson M., DeCastro J., Aliaga V., Romero J., and Davis A. The role of tenure security and private time preference in Neotropical deforestation. Land Economics 74 2 (1998) 162-170
18. Greene W.H. Econometric Analysis. 3rd edition (1997), Prentice Hall, New Jersey 1075 pp.
19. Holdsworth A.R., and Uhl C. Fire in Amazonian selectively logged rain forest and the potential for fire reduction. Ecological Applications 7 2 (1997) 713-725
20. Howe E.L. Risk Coping Among Indigenous Households in Sub-tropical Bolivia. Unpublished Manuscript (2003). http://www.econ.yale.edu/seminars/NEUDC03/howe.pdf Available: http://www.econ.yale.edu/seminars/NEUDC03/howe.pdf.
21. Ioris, E.M., 2005. A forest of disputes: struggles over spaces, resources, and social identities in Amazonia. Ph.D Dissertation, University of Florida. Unpublished manuscript.
22. Jacoby H.G. Shadow wages and peasant family labor supply: an econometric application to the Peruvian sierra. Review of Economic Studies 60 4 (1993) 903-921
23. Kochar A. Smoothing consumption by smoothing income: hours-of-work responses to idiosyncratic agricultural shocks in rural India. Review of Economics and Statistics 81 1 (1999) 50-61
24. McSweeney K. Forest product sale as natural insurance: the effects of household characteristics and the nature of shock in eastern Honduras. Society and Natural Resources 17 1 (2004) 39-56
25. Moran E.F., Adams R., Bakoyéma B., Fiorini T.S., and Boucek B. Human strategies for coping with El Niño related drought in Amazônia. Climatic Change 77 (2006) 343-361
26. Morduch J. Income smoothing and consumption smoothing. Journal of Economic Perspectives 9 3 (1995) 103-114
27. Nepstad D.C., Moreira A.G., Veríssimo A., Lefebvre P., Schlesinger P., Potter C., Nobre C., Setzer A., Krug T., Barros A.C., Alencar A., and Pereira J.R. Forest fire prediction and prevention in the Brazilian Amazon. Conservation Biology 12 5 (1998) 951-953
28. Nepstad D.C., Moreira A.G., and Alencar A.A. A floresta em chamas: origens, impactos e prevenção de fogo na Amazônia. Brasília: Programa Piloto para a Proteção das Florestas Tropicais do Brasil (1999), World Bank, Washington, D.C 202 pp.
29. Nepstad D.C., Carvalho G., Barros A.C., Alencar A., Capobianco J.P., Bishop J., Moutinho P., Lefebvre P., Lopes Silva U., and Prins E. Road paving, fire regime feedbacks, and the future of Amazon forests. Forest Ecology and Management 154 (2001) 395-407
30. Nepstad D.C., Schwartzman S., Bamberger B., Santili M., Ray D., Schlesinger P., Lefebvre P., and Prinz E. Inhibition of Amazon deforestation and fire by parks and indigenous reserves. Conservation Biology 20 (2006) 65-73
31. Pattanayak S., and Sills E. Do tropical forests provide natural insurance? The microeconomics of non-timber forests product collection in the Brazilian Amazon. Land Economics 77 (2001) 595-612
32. Pendleton L.H., and Howe E.L. Market integration, development, and smallholder forest clearance. Land Economics 78 1 (2002) 1-19
33. Perz S.G. Are agricultural production and forest conservation compatible? Agricultural diversity, agricultural incomes and primary forest cover among small farm colonists in the Amazon. World Development 32 6 (2004) 957-977
34. Perz S.G. The importance of household asset diversity for livelihood diversity and welfare among small farm colonists in the Amazon. Journal of Development Studies 41 7 (2005) 1193-1220
35. Perz S.G., and Walker R. Household life cycles and secondary forest cover among small farm colonists in the Amazon. World Development 30 6 (2002) 1009-1027
36. Rose E. Ex ante and ex post labor supply response to risk in a low-income area. Journal of Development Economics 64 (2001) 371-388
37. Rosenzweig M.R., and Binswanger H.R. Wealth, weather risk and the composition and profitability of agricultural investments. Economic Journal 103 416 (1993) 56-78
38. Saha A. A two-season agricultural household model of output and price uncertainty. Journal of Development Economics 45 2 (1994) 245-269
39. Shively G.E. Agricultural change, rural labor markets and forest clearing: an illustrative case from the Philippines. Land Economics 77 2 (2001) 268-284
40. Shively G.E. Poverty, consumption risk, and soil conservation. Journal of Development Economics 65 (2001) 267-290
41. Shively G., and Fisher M. Household labor and deforestation: a systems approach. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 86 5 (2004) 1361-1366
42. Simmons C.S., Cochrane M., Walker R.T., Wood C.H., and Arima E. Wildfires in Amazonia: a pilot study examining the role of farming systems, social capital, and fire contagion. Journal of Latin American Geography 3 1 (2004) 81-95
43. In: Singh I., Squire L., and Strauss J. (Eds). Agricultural Household Models: Extensions, Applications, and Policy (1986), Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 352 pp.
44. Sorrensen C. Linking smallholder land use and fire activity: examining biomass burning in the Brazilian Amazon. Forest Ecology and Management 128 (2000) 11-25
45. Takasaki Y., Barham B.L., and Coomes O.T. Risk coping strategies in tropical forests: floods, illnesses, and resource extraction. Environment and Development Economics 9 (2004) 203-224
46. Toniolo, M.A., 2004. The role of land tenure in the occurrence of accidental fires in the Amazon region: case studies from the national forest of Tapajos, Para, Brazil. Ph.D. Dissertation, Indiana University. Unpublished manuscript.
47. Varma A. The economics of slash and burn: a case study of the 1997-1998 Indonesian forest fires. Ecological Economics 46 1 (2003) 159-171
48. Vosti S.A., Braz E.M., Carpentier C.L., d'Oliveira M.V.N., and Witcover J. Rights to forest products, deforestation and smallholder income: evidence from the western Brazilian Amazon. World Development 31 11 (2003) 1889-1901
49. Walker R.T., Perz S., Caldas M., and Texeira da Silva L.G. Land use and land cover change in forest frontiers: the role of household life cycles. International Regional Science Review 25 2 (2002) 169-199
50. Zarin D.J., Davidson E.A., Brondizio E., Vieira I.C.G., Sá T., Feldpausch T., Schuur E.A.G., Mesquita R., Moran E., Delamonica P., Ducey M.J., Hurtt G.C., Salimon C., and Denich M. Legacy of fire slows carbon accumulation in Amazonian forest regrowth. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 3 7 (2005) 365-369