Actors and Factors of Deforestation in ‘Tropical Asia’
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Environmental Conservation
- Vol. 17 (1), 19-27
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0376892900017252
Abstract
Forest resources in tropical Asia are purportedly destroyed by shifting cultivators and spontaneous settlers as well as farmers in planned settlements for the purposes of expansion of agricultural land, land speculation, commercial crop cultivation, livestock ranching, logging, and manufacturing of paper and various industrial goods.Keywords
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