Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/U5mRNjC Agricultural Expansion and Tropical Deforestation International Trade, Poverty and Land Use By: Solon L. Barraclough Publisher: Routledge Print ISBN: 9781853836657, 1853836656 eText ISBN: 9781317972976, 131797297X Edition: 1st Pages: 150 Copyright year: 2000 Format: EPUB Available from $ 22.38 USD SKU 9781317972976R90 There is no clear-cut causal relationship between international trade, agricultural expansion and tropical deforestation. Academics, policy-makers and the public are all tempted by simplistic solutions to complex problems. In order to establish the true causal factors involved in this critical area of environmental decline, the authors of this study present case studies ranging over three continents. Utilizing statistics, it is shown that the focus of analysis of deforestation must be applied as much to the misguided policies of national and regional authorities as to the forces of trade and globalization. Further, it demonstrates that we must adopt a critical perspective on the historical context of human use of forest areas, looking at issues such as systems of land tenure. The primary aim of the book is to highlight the need to seek solutions in far-reaching institutional and policy reforms adapted to specific socio-economic and ecological contexts, if the problem of tropical deforestation is to be tackled effectively. Additional ISBNs 9781853836664, 9781853836657, 1853836664, 1853836656, 9781315870533, 1315870533
