What has Driven Deforestation in Developing Countries Since the 2000s? Evidence from New Remote-Sensing Data

Antoine Leblois, Olivier Damette and Julien Wolfersberger

World Development, 2017, vol. 92, issue C, 82-102

Abstract: Using newly-released and globally available high-resolution remote sensing data on forest loss, we update the assessment of the cross-country determinants of deforestation in developing countries.

Keywords: deforestation; development; international trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (56)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X16305411
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:wdevel:v:92:y:2017:i:c:p:82-102

DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.11.012

Access Statistics for this article

World Development is currently edited by O. T. Coomes

More articles in World Development from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().