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The Causes of Tropical Deforestation
The Economic and Statistical Analysis of Factors Giving Rise to the Loss of the Tropical Forests
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The Causes of Tropical Deforestation
The Economic and Statistical Analysis of Factors Giving Rise to the Loss of the Tropical Forests
The rapid destruction of tropical forests is one of the most pressing environmental problems of our time, but the international community and national governments are unable to formulate effective policy responses without a clear understanding of the causes of deforestation. This comprehensive and coherent account presents the 'state of the art' econometric analysis of tropical deforestation, quantifying and examining the local and underlying global causes.
355 pages
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
I. The Issues
1. Saving the world's tropical forests
2. Tropical deforestation: rates and patterns
II. Explaining Global Deforestation
3. Population and deforestation
4. International debt and deforestation
5. Tropical forest depletion and the changing macroeconomy, 1967-85
6. Macroeconomic causes of deforestation: barking up the wrong tree?
7. Population, development and tropical deforestation: a cross-national study
8. Population, land-use and the environment in developing countries: what can we learn from cross-national data?
9. Tropical deforestation and agricultural developments in Latin America
III. Country Case Studies
10. The causes of tropical deforestation: a quantitative analysis and case study from the Philippines
11. Incentives for tropical deforestation: some examples from Latin America
12. An econometric model of Amazon deforestation
13. An econometric analysis of the causes of tropical deforestation: the case of Northeast Thailand
14. Deforestation in Thailand
15. Government failure and deforestation in Indonesia
16. An analysis of the causes of deforestation in India
IV. The Tropical Timber Trade
17. The timber trade and tropical deforestation in Indonesia
18. Deforestation: the role of the international trade in tropical timber
19. The tropical timber trade and sustainable development
References
Index