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Economics of Forestry and Rural Development - An Empirical Introduction from Asia (Hardcover)
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Economics of Forestry and Rural Development - An Empirical Introduction from Asia (Hardcover)
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Economic development and forest use, with special emphasis on
understanding the components of forest degradation and exploitation
in developing countries, is the focus of this book. Contributors,
mostly from South or Southeast Asia, examine deforestation and
tenurial rights, linkages between migration, poverty, and resource
exploitation, technology diffusion among poor-subsistence
households, fuelwood and energy collection pressures on open-access
resources, government and public investments, and household models
of labor choice and its impact on resources. Emphasis is on
empirical investigation of these problems, though some conceptual
material related to resource exploitation, rent distributions, and
household economics is presented.
The book is the first to study household resource rent models
within a developing-country forestry context. The empirical models
are motivated by specifying and formally testing linkages between
labor, time, and other input decisions. The book also is the first
self-contained study using data from several countries to study a
common set of problems such as forest use pressure, the
relationship between forest exploitation, household allocation of
time, and rents, the adoption of technologies to mitigate
exploitation of forest resources, and the importance of population
pressure and spatial aspects of deforestation.
The book fills a niche by bringing rigorous economic theories and
hypothesis testing to social aspects of resource use. It will be of
interest to a range of professionals, from academic economists
working in forestry and development to resource policy
professionals at international development agencies, especially
those struggling with developing incentives to reduce forest
degradation.
William F. Hyde is Professor in the Department of Forestry,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Gregory S. Amacher is Associate
Professor in the Department of Forestry, Virginia Polytechnic
Institute.
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