The forest transition: Towards a more comprehensive theoretical framework☆
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...These theories of forest transition have been formalized through several disciplinary lenses, such as land rent frameworks (Barbier et al., 2010)....
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...It also evokes the environmental Kuznets curve, which posits increasing environmental degradation in early stages of economic development and a reversal with higher income, in a trajectory moderated by policies (Barbier et al., 2010)....
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...Mirroring the multidimensional nature of intensification, disintensification can encompass various realities. abundant but labor and capital are scarce, land-use expansion is expected to best render the satisficing outcome and thus be more likely (Barbier, 2010; le Polain de Waroux et al., 2018)....
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...The resource frontiers theory expects that, where land is accessible to many potential land users, and with population pressure and increasing affluence, rapid land-use expansion occurs as land-use agents engage in a race for the accumulation of natural resources (Barbier, 2010)....
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...Sometimes, the actual values that are used to allocate land may be far from optimal, and undermine the rural sustainability by the distorted economic and political incentives due to the policy and institutional failures (Barbier et al., 2010)....
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...Barbier et al. (2010) developed a more comprehensive theory of the forest transition and argued that long-run changes in forest cover in a country or region cannot be separated from the national or regional pattern of land use changes, taking into account of the competition among different land use....
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...However, for most countries and regions f the world, the main land use change during the extended national and use transition period is the conversion of forest area to agriultural use (Foley et al., 2005; Ramankutty and Foley, 1999)....
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...However, for most countries and regions f the world, the main land use change during the extended national and use transition period is the conversion of forest area to agriultural use (Foley et al., 2005; Ramankutty and Foley, 1999)....
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...Other social scientists have followed Mather in searching for vidence of forest transitions elsewhere in the world (e.g., Kauppi t al., 2006; Mustard et al., 2004; Palo and Vanhanen, 2000; Rudel, 998; Rudel et al., 2000, 2005), but they have largely emphasized escription over theory....
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...In addition, if farmland is abandoned but not ecessarily converted to other uses, e.g. to satisfy the demand for and for residential housing and urbanization, natural reforestation ay also occur (Mather and Needle, 1998; Rudel et al., 2005)....
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...…one must account for the influence of structural, instituional and technical changes in influencing the forest transition see, for example, Foster and Rosenzweig, 2003; Grainger, 1995a, 995b, 2008; Mather, 1992, 2000; Mather and Needle, 1998; Perz, 007; Perz and Skole, 2003; Rudel et al., 2005)....
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...Rudel et al. (2005) istinguish between an economic development path and a forest carcity path....
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...Rudel et al. (2005) refer to this process as the forest scarcity ath to the forest transition, since it is often signalled through risng prices for timber and tree products in markets and growing oncern over the availability of domestic supplies expressed by olicymakers and industry....
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