Population growth, poverty, and environmental stress
Subtitle: frontier migration in the Philippines and Costa Rica
By: Maria Concepcion Cruz ... [et. al.].
Contributors: Cruz, Maria Concepcion.; World Resources Institute.
Series: World Resources Institute report
Publisher: World Resources Institute
Published: 1992
Place of publication: [Washington, DC, USA]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 92
Subjects: Migration, Internal -- Philippines.; Environmental degradation -- Philippines.; Migration, Internal -- Costa Rica.; Environmental degradation -- Costa Rica.; Philippines -- Population.; Costa Rica -- Population.
Description: "Stresses links of demographic and environmental strains to larger issues of land tenure institutions and economic policies. The Costa Rican government's grants of provisional rights to squatters has led to more degradation/migration in Costa Rica and fueled the expansion of cattle ranching. Economic crisis merely added to other socioeconomic factors leading to a net migration from deforested into forested areas. Standard policy recommendations"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-87).