The Causes of Tropical Deforestation (eBook, ePUB)

The Economic and Statistical Analysis of Factors Giving Rise to the Loss of the Tropical Forests
Redaktion: Brown, Katrina; Pearce, David W.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000924688
• Artikelnr.: 68094392

Autorenporträt

Katrina Brown and David W. Pearce

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1. The Issues 1. Saving the World's 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,
1967-85 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