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 Pearce
Categories: Environmental & Nature Studies, The Natural World, Environmental Protection & Preservation, Business, Economics & Industry, Agriculture & Food Production, Natural Resources
Publisher: UBC Press
Hardcover : 9780774805117, 355 pages, January 1994
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Table of contents

Preface and Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

I. The Issues

1. Saving the world's tropical forests

2. Tropical deforestation: rates and patterns

II. Explaining Global Deforestation

3. Population and deforestation

4. International debt and deforestation

5. Tropical forest depletion and the changing macroeconomy,
1967-85

6. Macroeconomic causes of deforestation: barking up the wrong
tree?

7. Population, development and tropical deforestation: a
cross-national study

8. Population, land-use and the environment in developing countries:
what can we learn from cross-national data?

9. Tropical deforestation and agricultural developments in Latin
America

III. Country Case Studies

10. The causes of tropical deforestation: a quantitative analysis
and case study from the Philippines

11. Incentives for tropical deforestation: some examples from Latin
America

12. An econometric model of Amazon deforestation

13. An econometric analysis of the causes of tropical deforestation:
the case of Northeast Thailand

14. Deforestation in Thailand

15. Government failure and deforestation in Indonesia

16. An analysis of the causes of deforestation in India

IV. The Tropical Timber Trade

17. The timber trade and tropical deforestation in Indonesia

18. Deforestation: the role of the international trade in tropical
timber

19. The tropical timber trade and sustainable development

References

Index

Description

The rapid destruction of tropical forests is one of the most
pressing environmental problems of our time, but the international
community and national governments are unable to formulate effective
policy responses without a clear understanding of the causes of
deforestation. This comprehensive and coherent account presents the
'state of the art' econometric analysis of tropical
deforestation, quantifying and examining the local and underlying
global causes.