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

edited by Katrina Brown, David W. Pearce

UCL Press, 1994

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内容説明

This book features contributions on the causes of tropical deforestation using the very latest statistical and econometric techniques. The contributors are critical of each others' work and aims to move the debate to a higher plane. The book is intended for academics and postgraduates in the areas of environmental economics, resource management and the study of development, as well as those within agricultural studies and elsewhere who have an interest in forestry.

目次

  • Part 1 The issues: saving the world's tropical forests, David Pearce and Katrina Brown
  • tropical deforestation - rates and patterns, Norman Myers. Part 2 Explaining global deforestation: population and deforestation, Matti Palo
  • international debt and deforestation, James Kahn and Judith McDonald
  • tropical forest depletion and the changing macroeconomy, Ana Doris Capistrano
  • macroeconomic causes of deforestation - barking up the wrong tree?, Nemat Shafik
  • population, development, and tropical deforestation - a cross-national study, Thomas Rudel
  • population, land use and the environment in developing countries - what can we learn from cross-national data?, Richard Bilsborrow and Martha Geores
  • tropical deforestation and agricultural development in Latin America, Douglas Southgate. Part 3 Country case studies: the causes of deforestation - a quantitative analysis and case study from the Philippines, David Kummer and Chi Ho Sham
  • incentives for tropical deforestation - some examples from Latin America, Dennis Mahar and Robert Schneider
  • an econometric model of Amazon deforestation, Eustaquio Reis and Rolando Guzman
  • an econometric study of the causes of tropical deforestation - the case of North-East Thailand, Theo Panayotou and Somthawin Sunguswan
  • deforestation in Thailand, Chiara Lombardini
  • government failure and deforestation in Indonesia, Diane Osgood
  • an analysis of the causes of deforestation in India, Manab Chakraborty. Part 4 The tropical timber trade: the timber trade and tropical deforestation in Indonesia, Edward Barbier, et al
  • deforestation - the role of the international trade in tropical timber, Edward Barbier, et al
  • the tropical timber trade and sustainable development, Jeffrey Vincent.

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