Technological Progress versus Economic Policy as Tools to Control Deforestation: the Atlantic Zone of Costa Rica

P. Roebeling; R. Ruben

doi:10.1079/9780851994512.0135

Technological Progress versus Economic Policy as Tools to Control Deforestation: the Atlantic Zone of Costa Rica

P. Roebeling, R. Ruben

Development Economics

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Abstract

This paper presents a comparison between technological progress and economic policies as alternatives to promote rural development and reduction of deforestation. The comparison is based on a bioeconomic model of three types of farms found in the Atlantic zone of Costa Rica, a tropical lowland region of recent agrarian colonization.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Agricultural Technologies and Tropical Deforestation
Editors	A. Angelsen, D. Kaimowitz
Place of Publication	Wallingford
Publisher	CABI
Chapter	8
Pages	135-152
ISBN (Print)	9780851994512
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1079/9780851994512.0135
Publication status	Published - 2001

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Technological Progress versus Economic Policy as Tools to Control Deforestation: the Atlantic Zone of Costa Rica

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