The economics of tropical deforestation

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dc.contributor.authorBarbier, E.en
dc.contributor.authorBurgess, J.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialDeveloping countriesen
dc.coverage.temporal1980 - 1995en
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T18:55:05Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T18:55:05Zen
dc.date.issued2001en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractThis paper provides a survey of 'first wave' economic studies of tropical deforestation and land use. These studies of tropical forest land conversion are generally at the cross-country level. We also conduct a synthesis cross-country analysis of tropical agricultural land expansion. The results show that agricultural development is the main factor determining land expansion, but institutional factors have an important influence. Income effects tend to vary from region to region, and do not always display an 'Environmental Kuznets Curve' relationship. This paper also provides a review of the more recent 'second wave' economic studies of tropical deforestation that model and analyse the economic behaviour of agricultural households, timber concessionaires and other agents within tropical forest countries who affect deforestation through their land use decisions. Further work in this area requires more country-level and local case studies into tropical deforestation and land use.en
dc.format.mimetypetext/plainen
dc.identifier823en
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Economic Surveys 15(3): 413-421en
dc.identifier.issn0950-0804en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/65739en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherBlackwell Publishers Ltd. Oxford, UK and Malden, MA, USA.en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderBlackwell Publishers Ltd.en
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectAgricultural lawen
dc.subjectDeforestationen
dc.subjectEconomic policyen
dc.subjectForest managementen
dc.subjectTropical zonesen
dc.subjectAgricultureen
dc.subjectLand use managementen
dc.subjectForestryen
dc.subjectForestsen
dc.subjectEnvironmental lawen
dc.subjectAgricultural developmenten
dc.subjectAgricultural landen
dc.subjectAgricultural policiesen
dc.subjectDeforestationen
dc.subjectEconomic policyen
dc.subjectEnvironmental policyen
dc.subjectForest administrationen
dc.subjectForest policyen
dc.subjectForestryen
dc.subjectLand classificationen
dc.subjectLand clearanceen
dc.subjectLand useen
dc.subjectLoggingen
dc.subjectLogging effectsen
dc.subjectNatural resource economicsen
dc.subjectTropical forestsen
dc.subjectGovernanceen
dc.titleThe economics of tropical deforestationen
dc.typeAbstracten
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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