The causes of land-use and land-cover change:: moving beyond the myths

被引：411

作者：

Lambin, EF

Turner, BL

Geist, HJ

Agbola, SB

Angelsen, A

Bruce, JW

Coomes, OT

Dirzo, R

Fischer, G

Folke, C

George, PS

Homewood, K

Imbernon, J

Leemans, R

Li, XB

Moran, EF

Mortimore, M

Ramakrishnan, PS

Richards, JF

Skånes, H

Steffen, W

Stone, GD

Svedin, U

Veldkamp, TA

Vogel, C

Xu, JC

机构：

[1] Catholic Univ Louvain, Dept Geog, B-1348 Louvain, Belgium

[2] Clark Univ, George Perkins Marsh Inst, Worcester, MA 01610 USA

[3] Univ Ibadan, Ctr Urban & Reg Planning, Ibadan, Nigeria

[4] Agr Univ Norway, Dept Econ & Social Sci, N-1432 As, Norway

[5] Univ Wisconsin, Land Tenure Ctr, Madison, WI 53715 USA

[6] McGill Univ, Dept Geog, Montreal, PQ H3A 2K6, Canada

[7] Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Inst Ecol, Mexico City 04510, DF, Mexico

[8] Int Inst Appl Syst Anal, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria

[9] Univ Stockholm, Dept Syst Ecol, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden

[10] Ctr Dev Studies, Trivandrum 695011, Kerala, India

[11] UCL, Dept Anthropol, London WC1E 6BT, England

[12] Ctr Cooperat Int Rech Agron Dev, F-34032 Montpellier, France

[13] Natl Inst Publ Hlth & Environm, Bur Environm & Nat Assessments, NL-3720 BA Bilthoven, Netherlands

[14] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China

[15] Indiana Univ, Ctr Study Inst Populat & Environm Change, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA

[16] Drylands Res, Crewkerne TA18 7LG, Somerset, England

[17] Jawaharlal Nehru Univ, Sch Environm Sci, New Delhi 110067, India

[18] Duke Univ, Dept Hist, Durham, NC 27701 USA

[19] Stockholm Univ, Dept Phys Geog, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden

[20] Royal Swedish Acad Sci, Int Geosphere Biosphere Programme, S-10405 Stockholm, Sweden

[21] Washington Univ, Dept Anthropol, St Louis, MO 63130 USA

[22] Swedish Council Planning & Coordinat Res, S-10387 Stockholm, Sweden

[23] Wageningen Univ Agr, Lab Soil Sci & Geol, NL-6700 AA Wageningen, Netherlands

[24] Univ Witwatersrand, Dept Geog & Environm Studies, ZA-2050 Johannesburg, South Africa

[25] Chinese Acad Sci, Kunming Inst Bot, Kunming 650204, Yunnan, Peoples R China

来源：

GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS | 2001年 / 11卷 / 04期

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D O I：

10.1016/S0959-3780(01)00007-3

中图分类号：

X [环境科学、安全科学];

学科分类号：

08 ; 0830 ;

摘要：

Common understanding of the causes of land-use and land-cover change is dominated by simplifications which, in turn, underlie many environment-development policies. This article tracks some of the major myths on driving forces of land-cover change and proposes alternative pathways of change that are better supported by case study evidence. Cases reviewed support the conclusion that neither population nor poverty alone constitute the sole and major underlying causes of land-cover change worldwide. Rather, peoples' responses to economic opportunities, as mediated by institutional factors, drive land-cover changes. Opportunities andconstraints for new land uses are created by local as well as national markets and policies. Global forces become the main determinants of land-use change, as they amplify or attenuate local factors. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

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页码：261 / 269

页数：9

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