Abstract
Beyond proximate and distal causes of land-use change: linking Individual motivations to deforestation in rural contexts
Highlights
Tropical deforestation continues to be a major concern in the developing world
Research exploring the psychological drivers of deforestation, i.e., motivations, is still scant despite being crucial to understand the processes of land-use change and individual decision making within social-ecological systems
Our findings show that, controlling for the structural and household drivers widely identified in the deforestation literature, intrinsic motivations positively correlate with less self-reported deforestation
Summary
Tropical deforestation continues to be a major concern in the developing world. About 129 million ha of forest was lost between 1990 and 2015 mainly in the tropical regions of South America and Africa (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations 2015). Identifying distal and proximate drivers of tropical deforestation has been one of the main concerns of the literature on land-use change (Kaimowitz and Angelsen 1998, Lambin et al 2001, Geist and Lambin 2002, DeFries et al 2010). Most of these studies focus on both the behavior of landholders and the structural processes that affect such behavior, based on objective or observable factors. Such research has been developed at different scales: from the household or firm level to regional, national, and global scales, and using analytical, empirical, or simulation models (Kaimowitz and Angelsen 1998)
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