The Impact of Community Context on Land Use in an Agricultural Society
dc.contributor.author | Axinn, William G. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Bhandari, Prem | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Chhetri, Netra B. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Shivakoti, Ganesh P. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-08T21:30:15Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-09-08T21:30:15Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1999-01 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Shivakoti, Ganesh P.; Axinn, William G.; Bhandari, Prem; Chhetri, Netra B.; (1999). "The Impact of Community Context on Land Use in an Agricultural Society." Population and Environment 20(3): 191-213. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/43495> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1573-7810 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0199-0039 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/43495 | |
dc.description.abstract | As an initial step toward new models of the population-environment relationship, this paper explores the relationship between community context and local land use in an agricultural setting. In this type of setting, we argue that aspects of the community context, such as schools and transportation infrastructure, impact important environmental characteristics, such as land use. We provide hypotheses which explain the mechanisms producing these effects. We then use data from a study of 132 communities in rural Nepal to test our hypotheses. These analyses show that community characteristics are strongly associated with land use in this agricultural setting. The results point toward changes in communities as critical determinants of environmental quality. These findings are consistent with the notion that changes in community contexts may also condition the population-environment relationship. | en_US |
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dc.format.extent | 3115 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Social Sciences, General | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Public Health/Gesundheitswesen | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Sociology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Community & Environmental Psychology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Population Economics | en_US |
dc.title | The Impact of Community Context on Land Use in an Agricultural Society | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Population and Demography | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Population Studies Center University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48107-2590 | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics, School of Environment, Resource and Development, Asian Institute of Technology, Klong Luang, Pathumthani, 12120, Thailand | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Tribhuvan University, Thailand | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Pennsylvania State University, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/43495/1/11111_2004_Article_414497.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1023398907307 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Population and Environment | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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