Economic Stagnation and Deforestation in Costa Rica and the Philippines

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Type:	Conference Paper
Author:	Cruz, Maria Concepcion
Conference:	Common Property in Ecosystems Under Stress, the Fourth Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property
Location:	Manila, Philippines
Conf. Date:	June 16-19, 1993
Date:	1993
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/2081
Sector:	Forestry
Region:	East Asia Central America & Caribbean
Subject(s):	deforestation population growth agricultural expansion--case studies IASC
Abstract:	"This paper presents case studies of rural-to-rural migration in Costa Rica and the Philippines. The objective is to show that for countries already experiencing population pressures on resources, worsening economic conditions create additional stress on open access, frontier lands. Pressures from a growing labor force and deepening poverty promote expansion into ecologically sensitive sites."

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