Pagiola, Stefano - EconWPA - 2004
and effects. The paper begins by summarizing the long-term trends in land use change in Indonesia, and the new data on … loss of forest cover during the period 1985-1997. It then discusses why this land use change is likely to be undesirable in … many cases. Land use change can at times be beneficial, but there are good reasons to believe that current patterns of land …