Do tropical forests provide natural insurance? The microeconomics of non-timber forest product collection in the Brazilian Amazon.
Tropical forests may contribute to the well-being of local people by providing a form of “natural insurance.” We draw on microeconomic theory to conceptualize a model relating agricultural risks to collection of non-timber forest products. Forest collection trips are positively correlated with both...
| Publicado en: | Land Economics Vol. 77; no. 4; pp. 595 - 613 |
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University of Wisconsin Press
November 2001
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