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