Forest Clearing in Rural Livelihoods: Household-Level Global-Comparative Evidence

World Development

Volumn 64, Issue S1, 2014, Pages S67-S79

  Babigumira, Ronnie ^a,b   Angelsen, Arild ^a,b   Buis, Maarten ^c   Bauch, Simone ^a   Sunderland, Terry ^b   Wunder, Sven ^d  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

^c WZB BERLIN SOCIAL SCIENCE CENTER   (Germany)

^d Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Deforestation; Land use change; Poverty; Smallholder farmers

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; DECISION MAKING; DEFORESTATION; DEVELOPING WORLD; FOREST COVER; HOUSEHOLD STRUCTURE; LAND USE CHANGE; POVERTY; RURAL PLANNING; SMALLHOLDER;

EID: 84911379094     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: 18735991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.03.002     Document Type: Article

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