The development of the arid tropics: Lessons for economic history

Tirthankar Roy
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ABSTRACT For centuries, the world’s tropical regions have been poorer than the temperate-zone countries. Does tropicality make the struggle for economic development harder? What do people caught up in the struggle do? The paper defines ‘tropicality’ as the combination of aridity and seasonal rainfall, and in turn, high inter- and intra-year variability in moisture influx. In the past, this condition would generate a variety of adaptive strategies such as migration and transhumance. In the twentieth century, the response pattern changed from adapting to moisture supply towards control of moisture supply. This process unleashed conflict and environmental stress in the vulnerable geography of the semi-arid tropics.
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干旱热带地区的发展:经济史的教训
几个世纪以来,世界上的热带地区一直比温带国家贫穷。热带是否使经济发展更加困难?陷入困境的人们会怎么做?这篇论文将“热带性”定义为干旱和季节性降雨的结合,以及水分流入的年际和年内高变异性。在过去,这种情况会产生各种适应策略,如迁移和迁移。20世纪以来,气候响应模式由适应供水量向控制供水量转变。这一进程在半干旱的热带脆弱地区释放了冲突和环境压力。
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