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1 引言在本文中,我们使用土地利用及其变迁的分类数据来考察不同的社会经济因素和自然地理因素对墨西哥毁林的影响。本文的目的在于:说明三种影响墨西哥毁林的因素(贫困、政府政策和随之而来的价格、以及产权保障)的意义;并且,在力所能及的范围内,定量地确定这三种因素的重要性。第1图和第2图(图从略——译者)的对比形象地表明出:在本文考察时期里,墨西哥已目睹了相当大的森林毁坏。就其对墨西哥的高水平生物多样性和对贫困者的自然资源基础重要性来看,墨西哥的毁林是一个引人特别关注的问题。由于收集
1 Introduction In this paper we use the disaggregated data of land use and its changes to examine the impact of different socio-economic and physical geography factors on deforestation in Mexico. The purpose of this paper is to explain three of the factors that affect deforestation in Mexico (poverty, government policies and consequent prices, and property rights guarantees); and, to the best of their ability, quantify all three of these factors importance. A comparison of Figures 1 and 2 (from a little translator) shows vividly that during the period of this study, Mexico had witnessed considerable forest destruction. Mexico’s deforestation is an issue of particular concern in terms of its importance to Mexico’s high level of biodiversity and to the natural resource base of the poor. Due to collection