11 Feb Population and deforestation: why rural migration matters
Type
Journal Article
Author(s)
Carr, D.
Title
Population and deforestation: why rural migration matters
Year
2009
Journal
Progress in Human Geography
Vol (No), pp
33, 355-378
Abstract
This paper reviews the state of knowledge in, and develops a conceptual model for, researching frontier migration in the developing world with a focus on Latin America. Since only a small fraction moves to forest frontiers, identifying people and place characteristics associated with frontier migration could usefully inform policies aimed at forest conservation and rural development. Yet population scholars train their efforts on urban and international migration while land use/cover change researchers pay scant attention to these migration flows which directly antecede the most salient footprint of human occupation on the earth’s surface: the conversion of forest to agricultural land.
Citation
Carr, D. (2009 ). Population and deforestation: why rural migration matters. Progress in Human Geography, 33, 355-378. URL : http://phg.sagepub.com/content/early/2008/12/17/0309132508096031.short