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Causes of Deforestation - Economic Aspects

analysis of deforestation in the decades of the 1980s and 1990s, placed emphasis on the impact made by processes colonization and urbanization. Following the arguments of Von Thunnen, deforestation is understood largely as the result of the expansion of the area occupied by humans.

However, there are always humans who deforest. In the case of Latin America, was not so much colonization, but the cattle ranching which strongly encouraged deforestation. In 1981, the environmentalist Norman Myers published The hamburger connection: how forests of Central America became the United States burgers. " In aucerod with Myers, the momentum of the U.S. beef market to deforestation was enormous. Mentioned as an example that by 1959 the area devoted to cattle in Costa Rica meant only one eighth of the land surface, while by 1980 it was third. In 1996, David Kaimowitz published a broader review, showing how deforestation in Central America is linked to prices of meat. In a more recent paper, David Kaimowitz, Benoit Mertens, Sven Wunder and Pablo Pacheco, documenting how the meat markets, mainly the European Union, also fueling deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon.

image needy communities of settlers forced to destroy the forest heritage to fight for subsistence, if ever was the one who explained the deforestation, as seems to be no more. Recent work in 41 countries in the humid tropics of Ruth S. DeFries, Thomas Rudel, Maria Uriarte and Matthew Hansen, currently shows that deforestation is a phenomenon that has nothing to do with the growth of human settlements in rural areas, but occurs when forest areas are connected to markets demanding cost-effective products that can be grown on forest land. This is true not only of cattle but of soy or palm oil. A recent report in El Pais, documents the frantic expansion of soybean cultivation in Argentina.

The momentum of certain markets to deforestation is so strong that in DeFries et al study found that no migration from the countryside to the city to help reduce deforestation, but, contrary to what one might think, migration is associated to further deforestation.


References:

Article Myers, N. 1981. The Hamburger Connection: How Central America's Forests
Became North America's Hamburgers. Ambio 10: 3-8. Reimporeso was in the book Developing areas: a book of readings and research , edited by K. Vijayan Pillai, and Lyle W. Shannon.

Kaimowitz, D. Livestock and deforestation in Central America in the 1980s and 1990s : a policy perspective (1996).

Kaimowitz, D, Mertens B, Wunder, S. and Pacheco, P.: Hamburger Connection Fuels Amazon Destruction
; Cattle ranching and deforestation in Brazil's Amazon . Bogor, Indonesia, CIFOR, S / F.

DeFries, R, Rudel, T, Uriarte, M & Hansen, M.: Deforestation Population Growth driven by urban and agricultural trade in the twenty-first century . Nature Geoscience 3, 178-181 (2010) Published online: 7 February 2010 Plant eats it all: cows, people, traditions and rural workers. Argentina reaches this year the largest crop in its history, 52 million tonnes.

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