Distance friction and the cost of hunting in tropical forests / Anders H. Sirén ... [y otros].
Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: Documentos CEDE ; 37 Octubre de 2012Publisher: Bogotá : Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE, 2012Description: 26 páginas : ilustraciones ; 28 cmContent type: texto Media type: sin mediación Carrier type: volumenISBN: 16575334ISSN: 1657-5334Other title: Fricción por distancia y los costos de la cacería en los bosques tropicalesSubject(s): Caza -- Aspectos económicos | Caza -- Costos -- Amazonas (Colombia) | Caza -- Costos -- Modelos económicos. -- Amazonas (Región)DDC classification: 338.372 Abstract: Empirical studies of tropical forest hunting have shown the existence of marked spatial gradients of hunting effort, game harvest, and animal abundance, as hunters mostly hunt near villages, roads, and rivers. The mechanisms underlying these patterns have, however, hitherto been poorly known. This article presents a spatial bioeconomic model based on the concept of distance friction, i.e. an increasing marginal cost of distance. The model is validated by comparison with an economic field experiment with Amazonian hunters and with previous empirical data on hunting.Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Vol info | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Empirical studies of tropical forest hunting have shown the existence of marked spatial gradients of hunting effort, game harvest, and animal abundance, as hunters mostly hunt near villages, roads, and rivers. The mechanisms underlying these patterns have, however, hitherto been poorly known. This article presents a spatial bioeconomic model based on the concept of distance friction, i.e. an increasing marginal cost of distance. The model is validated by comparison with an economic field experiment with Amazonian hunters and with previous empirical data on hunting.
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