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Nous fournissons des preuves et des solutions concrètes pour transformer l’utilisation des terres et la production alimentaire : conserver et restaurer les écosystèmes, répondre aux crises mondiales du climat, de la malnutrition, de la biodiversité et de la désertification. En bref, nous améliorons la vie des populations.

CIFOR-ICRAF publie chaque année plus de 750 publications sur l’agroforesterie, les forêts et le changement climatique, la restauration des paysages, les droits, la politique forestière et bien d’autres sujets encore, et ce dans plusieurs langues. .

CIFOR-ICRAF s’attaque aux défis et aux opportunités locales tout en apportant des solutions aux problèmes mondiaux concernant les forêts, les paysages, les populations et la planète.

Nous fournissons des preuves et des solutions concrètes pour transformer l’utilisation des terres et la production alimentaire : conserver et restaurer les écosystèmes, répondre aux crises mondiales du climat, de la malnutrition, de la biodiversité et de la désertification. En bref, nous améliorons la vie des populations.

CIFOR–ICRAF publishes over 750 publications every year on agroforestry, forests and climate change, landscape restoration, rights, forest policy and much more – in multiple languages.

CIFOR–ICRAF addresses local challenges and opportunities while providing solutions to global problems for forests, landscapes, people and the planet.

We deliver actionable evidence and solutions to transform how land is used and how food is produced: conserving and restoring ecosystems, responding to the global climate, malnutrition, biodiversity and desertification crises. In short, improving people’s lives.

Book Review. Tropical forests: Regional Paths of Destruction and Regeneration in the Late 20th century

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Most deforestation studies either feature micro-level cases or global-comparative cross-country regressions. The first run serious dangers of overly site-specific reasoning, the second of universal over-generalisation. Tom Rudel's book takes a refreshing and innovative middle-of-the-road approach. It collects findings from 270 national or sub-national land-use change studies published prior to 2003, and synthesizes them into a meso-level analysis, revealing common trends and causalities for seven sub-continental tropical regions. Integrating previous results from 1996, Rudel is also able to identify changes in regional de- and reforestation drivers between the 1970/80s and the 1990s. Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) empowered by Boolean algebra is his principal analytical tool, but he resists temptations of mechanical explanations: verbally weaving the multiple patchy cases into a picture coherent in space and time is at least as important as an achievement of this book.

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2006.08.01029
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    Année de publication

    2007

    Auteurs

    Wunder, S.

    Langue

    English

    Mots clés

    tropical forests, forest management, local government

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