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| Title: | Pasture-led to logging-led deforestation : the dynamics of socio-environmental change in the Brazilian Amazon |
| Authors: | Parayil, Govindan
Tong, Florence |
| Keywords: | Deforestation
Brazil
Amazon
Tragedy of the commons
Environmental change
Population dynamics
Economic development
Sustainable development
Natural resource management |
| Issue Date: | 17-Jun-1997 |
| Series/Report no.: | Working Papers in the Social Sciences ; No. 19 |
| Abstract: | The causes and consequences of tropical deforestation are not confined to the geographical region of the Third World where it takes place. This paper examines the socio-environmental dynamics of pasture-led deforestation to logging-led deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon through three theoretical frameworks: neo-Malthusian theory of population dynamics; Garrett Hardin’s reformulation of the ‘tragedy of the commons’; and Peter Taylor’s and Garcia-Barrio’s socio-ecological analysis of environmental change. The root cause of pasture-led to logging-led deforestation has little to do with ‘overpopulation’ or landlessness. Instead, deforestation is caused by a particular nexus of social, economic, ecological, historical, and political factors. Regional development programmes based on the exploitation of the forest land without a comprehensive vision of sustainable forest resource utilization and management did not generate real development, instead they created further environmental destruction and social unrest. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1783.1/1176 |
| Appears in Collections: | SOSC Working Papers
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