Land speculation and interest rate subsidies as a cause of deforestation: The role of cattle ranching in Costa Rica

Land Use Policy

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 489-496

  Roebeling, Peter C ^a,b   Hendrix, Eligius M T ^a,c  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cattle ranching; Deforestation; Dynamic optimization; Investment theory; Land speculation

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BROWNIAN MOTION; CATTLE; DEFORESTATION; INTEREST RATE; INVESTMENT; LAND DEGRADATION; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; NEOCLASSICAL THEORY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; RANCHING; SUBSIDY SYSTEM;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA; LATIN AMERICA;

BOS;

EID: 70449625498     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2009.07.002     Document Type: Article

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