Population pressure and agricultural intensity

B. L. Turner; Robert Q. Hanham; Anthony V. Portararo

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8306.1977.tb01149.x

Population pressure and agricultural intensity

B. L. Turner, Robert Q. Hanham, Anthony V. Portararo

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A positive relationship between population pressure and agricultural intensity is fundamental to Boserup's thesis of agricultural growth and to several of its modifications. Correlation analysis reveals a strong positive association between the population densities and agricultural intensities of a sample of tropical subsistence agriculturalists; the variation in population densities accounts for fifty-eight percent of the variation in the logarithm of agricultural intensities. The addition of subsistence and environmental factors to the model increases the explained variation and suggests several modifications of Boserup's thesis.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	384-396
Number of pages	13
Journal	Annals of the Association of American Geographers
Volume	67
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8306.1977.tb01149.x
State	Published - Sep 1 1977
Externally published	Yes

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Geography, Planning and Development
Earth-Surface Processes

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