Natural resource degradation effects of poverty and population growth are largely policy-induced: the case of Colombia

作者：John Richard Heath, Hans Binswanger · 发表于：Environment and Development Economics · 年份：1996 · DOI：10.1017/s1355770x00000383 · 被引用次数：208 · 研究领域：Water resources management and optimization、Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management、Land Rights and Reforms

ABSTRACT The sustainability of natural resource use is influenced by population pressure, but this exercises a much less critical impact than the overall policy framework. In Colombia, various agricultural and other policies whose effect is to constrain the poor's access to land encourage environmental degradation. A case is made in favour of the new land reform process that Colombia is launching.