The Causes of Tropical Deforestation (1994) is an analysis of the problem of deforestation, using statistical technique – a form of ‘environ-metrics’ – to discover the true causes of an issue whose basis is hotly debated.
The Causes of Tropical Deforestation (1994) is an analysis of the problem of deforestation, using statistical technique – a form of ‘environ-metrics’ – to discover the true causes of an issue whose basis is hotly debated, and attributed to causes as varied as poverty, external debt, multinational logging companies, government corruption, the IMF, population growth, and non-sustainable agriculture.
Part
1. The Issues
1. Saving the Worlds Tropical Forests David Pearce
and Katrina Brown
2. Tropical Deforestation: Rates and Patterns Norman Myers
Part
2. Explaining Global Deforestation
3. Population and Deforestation Matti
Palo
4. International Debt and Deforestation James Kahn and Judith McDonald
5. Tropical Forest Depletion and the Changing Macroeconomy, 196785 Ana Doris
Capistrano
6. Macroeconomic Causes of Deforestation: Barking up the Wrong
Tree? Nemat Shafiq
7. Population, Development and Tropical Deforestation: A
Cross-National Study Thomas Rudel
8. Population, Land Use and the
Environment in Developing Countries: What Can We Learn from Cross-National
Data? Richard Bilsborrow and Martha Geores
9. Tropical Deforestation and
Agricultural Development in Latin America Douglas Southgate Part
3. Country
Case Studies
10. The Causes of Tropical Deforestation: A Quantitative
Analysis and Case Study from the Philippines David Kummer and Chi Ho Sham
11.
Incentives for Tropical Deforestation: Some Examples from Latin America
Dennis Mahar and Robert Schneider
12. An Econometric Model of Amazon
Deforestation Eustáquio Reis and Rolando Guzmán
13. An Econometric Analysis
of the Causes of Tropical Deforestation: the Case of Northern Thailand
Theodore Panayotou and Somthawin Sungsuwan
14. Deforestation in Thailand
Chiara Lombardini
15. Government Failure and Deforestation in Indonesia
Diane Osgood
16. An Analysis of the Causes of Deforestation in India Manab
Chakraborty Part
4. The Tropical Timber Trade
17. The Timber Trade and
Tropical Deforestation in Indonesia Edward Barbier, Nancy Bockstael, Joanne
Burgess and Ivar Strand
18. Deforestation: the Role of the international
Trade in Tropical Timber Edward Barbier, Joanne Burgess, Josh Bishop and
Bruce Aylward
19. The Tropical Timber Trade and Sustainable Development
Jeffrey Vincent
Katrina Brown and David W. Pearce
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