This paper will discuss how and if climatic factors can be isolated from other factors to explain recent Honduran migration behavior, in order to move towards a holistic explanation of climate-driven migration by drawing on ethnographic studies of Honduran coffee farmers.
This paper examines land use allocation in an extensive agricultural system faced with a relative land scarcity. We frame our inquiry using Boserup’s (1965) classic work that explicitly considered the role of fallows in the process of land use intensification under conditions of population increase and land scarcity. (from Introduction)
In this paper, Amerindian households in the Honduran rain forest was surveyed to test the hypotheses about the effects of household variables on deforestation and identify policies to lower neotropical deforestation.
This paper analyzed longitudinal data on assets in an effort to better understand the longer-term impacts of two shocks, the three-year drought of the late 1990s in Ethiopia and the 1998 Hurricane Mitch in Honduras.
Using a 1998 survey of indigenous households in Honduras, the authors analyze and explain the differential use of forest resources.
This paper analyzes the relationship between demographic dynamics and Hurricane Mitch in Central America, and extracts from this experience lessons that can help reduce vulnerability in the long run. Specifically, it centers on three aspects: How did demographic processes condition the area's vulnerability prior to Mitch? What are Mitch's consequences for population dynamics in the short and long term? What changes must be introduced in population dynamics if the effects of future natural disasters are to be mitigated?
A summary of papers presented at the workshop in December 1991.
This paper explores the links between a Miskito Indian community in Honduras and the international lobster trade.
