The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics

Tropical deforestation accounts for almost one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions and threatens the world’s most diverse ecosystems. Much of this deforestation is driven by illegal logging. We use novel satellite data that tracks annual deforestation across eight years of Indonesian institutional cha...

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Main Authors: Burgess, Robin, Hansen, Matthew, Olken, Benjamin A., Potapov, Peter, Sieber, Stefanie
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/82894
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1918-4631