Environmental degradation, property rights and population movements: hypotheses and evidence from Rajasthan (India)

摘要

This study examines, in a developing-country context, the nature of the linkages between deforestation, land degradation and the movement of population form one region to another. While it is usually hypothesized that environmental degradation leads to stress migration form rural areas, changes in institutional arrangements and the subsequent regeneration of land and water may change the situation, decreasing the at- tractiveness of the option to migrate. Primary data from six villages in Rajasthan (a region in Western India) are used to set up alternative models using OLS, logit and 3SLS systems methods to test alternative forms of the hypotheses.