War and deforestation in Sierra Leone
The impact of armed conflict on the environment is of major public policy importance. We use a geographically disaggregated dataset of civil war violence together with satellite imagery of land cover to test whether war facilitated or prevented forest loss in Sierra Leone. The conflict data set allo...
Main Authors: | Robin Burgess, Edward Miguel, Charlotte Stanton |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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IOP Publishing
2015-01-01
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Series: | Environmental Research Letters |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/10/9/095014 |
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