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