The Economics of Tropical Deforestation

Barbier, Edward B.; Burgess, Joanne C.

doi:10.1111/1467-6419.00144

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“…Natural closed broad-leaved forests in tropical countries cover about 1,260 million hectares, or nine percent of the Earth's total land area (Barbier, et al, 1991). While annual deforestation was 12 million ha during 1980-95, the loss of natural forest in developing countries was more than 13 million ha annually (FAO, 1997).…”

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Governance, economic policy, and the environmental Kuznets curve for natural tropical forests

2004

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This paper reports the results of an empirical analysis of the relationship between income and the rate of deforestation of tropical natural forests. The inverted U-shaped relationship known as the environmental Kuznets curve is confirmed here when it is examined for about 60 countries from the tropical regions of Latin America, Africa, and Asia during the period 1980 to 1995. The study focuses on the role of institutions and governing factors and macroeconomic policies in the tropical deforestation process. Results indicate that the quality of governance and underlying institutions are important determinants of forest resource preservation, and that rural population pressure is not as important as suggested by other studies. Agricultural technology improvement and enhanced educational attainment and social development factors also lead to reductions of deforestation rates.1 A selected paper presented at

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Governance, economic policy, and the environmental Kuznets curve for natural tropical forests

2004

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“…They produce diverse goods and services (see Barbier, 1991), including those of tangible and immediate value such as timber, medicinal plants, fruit, etc. ; those that arise indirectly through ecological systems, such as nutrient cycling, water conservation, and carbon storage; the option value of future uses of the forests; and the intangible existence values of forest biodiversity and landscape.…”

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Protecting the Forest or the People? Environmental Policies and Livelihoods in the Forest Margins of Southern Ghana

2004

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Summary. -Although a wide range of policies to conserve the environment in the forest zones of southern Ghana exists on paper, in practice most are only applied in the commercially-valuable timber reserves. Environmental policies have little impact on those living in the forest margins since they are only sporadically applied, if at all. Indeed, even accepted community norms for resource use tend to be set aside when their application would interfere with key occupations. Livelihoods, however, depend heavily on natural resources, so conservation is necessary. The dilemma is to devise policies that are effective. Some decentralization of policy-making might improve matters, but care will be needed to avoid pitfalls.

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“…Topography has been shown to have important influences on tree cover at local or regional scales 19,20,23 , but the global generality of this remains untested. Indeed, many broad-scale studies of deforestation have focused primarily on economic factors, giving little attention to topographic and climatic effects 24 .…”

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Human impacts drive a global topographic signature in tree cover

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Svenning

2013

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The Anthropocene is a geological epoch marked by major human influences on processes in the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere and geosphere. One of the most dramatic features of the Anthropocene is the massive alteration of the Earth's vegetation, including forests. Here we investigate the role of topography in shaping human impacts on tree cover from local to global scales. We show that human impacts have resulted in a global tendency for tree cover to be constrained to sloped terrain and losses to be concentrated on flat terrain. This effect increases in strength with increasing human pressure and is most pronounced in countries with rapidly growing economies, limited human population stress and highly effective governments. These patterns likely reflect the relative inaccessibility of sloped topography and have important implications for conservation and modelling of future tree cover.

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The Economics of Tropical Deforestation

Cited by 261 publications

References 29 publications

Governance, economic policy, and the environmental Kuznets curve for natural tropical forests

Governance, economic policy, and the environmental Kuznets curve for natural tropical forests

Protecting the Forest or the People? Environmental Policies and Livelihoods in the Forest Margins of Southern Ghana

Human impacts drive a global topographic signature in tree cover

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