| Title | Implications of Resource-use Intensification for the Environment and Sustainable Technology Systems in the Central African Rainforest. |
| Publication Type | Book Chapter |
| Year of Publication | 2001 |
| Authors | Gockowski, J.; Nkamleu, G.B.; Wendt, J. |
| ContactAuthor | asb@cgiar.org |
| Book Title | Tradeoffs or Synergies? Agricultural Intensification, Economic Development and the Environment |
| Chapter | 10 |
| Pagination | 197-219 |
| Publisher | CAB International |
| City | Wallingford, UK |
| ISBN | 0-85199-435-0 |
| Keywords | ASB, Biodiversity, Carbon stocks, Congo, environmental, land use, Rainforest, slash and burn |
| Abstract | Empirical results are reported from a principal benchmark site of the Global Initiative for Alternatives to Slash and Burn. The area studied is in the rainforest of the Congo River basin in Central Africa. The chapter examines: (1) the environmental consequences of both population-driven and policy-led intensification; (2) tradeoffs in economic performance, carbon stocks and biodiversity for dominant land-use systems; (3) the underlying factors leading to intensification at both household and community levels. |
| URL | http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/20003025938.html;jsessionid=5CF1769EAB0A0DA4A4725E79F252253B |
| DOI | 10.1079/9780851994352.0197 |
