Economic Development and Deforestation Among Bolivian Amerindian Households

该项目涉及一名人类学家和一名经济学家在热带玻利维亚的印第安村庄进行的试点研究。 该项目假设，森林砍伐与村庄融入市场之间的联系是非线性的，在部分融入市场的村庄达到高峰，这些村庄砍伐森林更多，因为它们面临更大的保有权不安全和更高的私人折扣率。 研究人员将于1995年夏天在玻利维亚逗留两个半月，收集尤拉卡雷印第安人的背景资料，确定研究地点，测试日记、回忆和在那些村庄进行正式调查的效用，设法为尤拉卡雷村庄按时间序列寻找价格数据，以衡量村庄融入市场的程度，定性地检验假设并加以完善，获得实地考察当地成本的估算，为长期研究编制预算，评估实地考察的安全性，并探讨当地学者、非政府组织和政府机构合作开展更广泛研究的兴趣。 这项研究对全球变化中人的方面的研究工作很重要。 提高我们对家庭一级森林砍伐原因的理解，对于自然资源政策制定者试图设计干预措施以减缓森林砍伐速度是有价值的。

This project involves the pilot research of an anthropologist, and an economist in Indian villages in tropical Bolivia. The project hypothesizes that the link between deforestation and village integration to markets is non-linear, peaking in villages partially integrated to markets, and that these villages deforest more because they face more tenure insecurity and higher private discount rates. The researchers will spend 2.5 months in Bolivia in the summer of 1995 to collect background data on the Yuracare Indians, identify research sites, test the usefulness of diaries, recalls, and formal surveys in the villages, try to find price data in time series for Yuracare villages to measure the intensity of village integration to markets, test hypotheses qualitatively and refine them, get estimates on local costs of field work to prepare a budget for a longer study, assess the safety of doing field work, and explore the interest of local scholars, NGOs and government institutions in collaborating in more extensive research. This research is important for the Human Dimension of Global Change research effort. Advancing our understanding of the causes of deforestation on a household level will be valuable to natural resource policy makers as they attempt to design interventions to slow the rate of deforestation.