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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ricardo A Godoy |
| ISBN: | 0231117841 9780231117845 023111785X 9780231117852 |
| OCLC Number: | 45008658 |
| Description: | xviii, 256 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | The Question, the Research Design, and the People -- The Question and Its Significance -- Clearing the Underbrush -- Comparing Approaches -- The Approach of Development Economists -- The Approach of Political Economists -- The Anthropological Approach -- The Model of Gross and Colleagues -- A Ricardian Model of Trade -- Research Design -- Definitions, Causality, and Functional Form -- Rationale for the Choice of Cultures -- Methods Used to Collect Information -- Sumu-Mayagna (Nicaragua) and Tawahka (Honduras) -- Mojeno and Yuracare (Bolivia) -- Tsimane (Bolivia) -- Chiquitano (Bolivia) -- Quality of Information -- Sampling -- Ethnographic Sketches -- Tawahka -- Tsimane -- Mojeno and Yuracare -- Chiquitano -- Similarities and Differences -- The Findings -- Forest Clearance: Income, Technology, and Private Time Preference -- Rationale for the Choice of Indigenous People and of Old-Growth Forest to Study Deforestation -- The Model -- Hypotheses -- Previous Studies -- Variables -- Results -- Forest Clearance and Income -- Forest Clearance and Crop Yields -- Forest Clearance and Private Time Preference -- Sensitivity Analysis and Controlling for Reverse Causality -- Game Consumption, Income, and Prices: Empirical Estimates and Implications for Conservation -- The Role of Income and Prices in Game Consumption: Implications for Conservation -- Goals, Variables, and Econometric Models -- Results -- Comparing Availability of Game in Rich and Poor Communities -- Chayanov and Netting: When Does Demography Matter?. |
| Responsibility: | Ricardo Godoy. |
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