Slash and burn and fires in Indonesia: a comment

dc.creator	Tacconi, L.
dc.creator	Vayda, A.P.
dc.date	2006
dc.date	2012-06-04T09:09:22Z
dc.date	2012-06-04T09:09:22Z
dc.date.accessioned	2026-06-27T14:12:14Z
dc.description	A paper published in Ecological Economics [Varma, A. 2003. The economics of slash and burn: a case study of the 1997–1998 Indonesian forest fires. Ecological Economics 46,159–171] claims to show that slash and burn agriculture is socially inefficient and should be banned. However, its conclusions and recommendations are flawed. It defines slash and burn agriculture too broadly and misrepresents the nature and causes of the 1997–98 fires by virtue of attributing them entirely to slash and burn agriculture. Its economic assessment of the costs of the fires is also problematic. The recommendations to ban land-clearing fires and to provide alternative livelihoods to slash and burn farmers cannot be supported.
dc.identifier	https://hdl.handle.net/10568/19353
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/76963
dc.language	en
dc.source	Tacconi, L., Vayda, A.P. 2006. Slash and burn and fires in Indonesia: a comment. Ecological Economics 56(1): 1-4. ISSN: 0921-8009.
dc.subject	fires
dc.subject	shifting cultivation
dc.subject	agriculture
dc.subject	economics
dc.subject	assessment
dc.title	Slash and burn and fires in Indonesia: a comment
dc.type	Journal Article

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