reductions is to encourage reductions in deforestation. But any such strategy must confront a basic problem: agents that might be …

Fuelwood collection is often cited as the most important cause of deforestation in developing countries. Use of …

Free trade can often lead to resource depletion, such as deforestation in the tropics. This paper first presents a …

The world has pledged to protect 30 percent of its land and waters by 2030 to halt the rapid deterioration of critical … ecosystems. We summarize the state of knowledge about the impacts of protected area policies, with a focus on deforestation and … summarize empirical evidence across multiple regions of the world. In most cases, protection has had at most a modest impact on …

Motivated by tropical deforestation, we analyze (i) a novel theory of resource extraction, (ii) the optimal …’s presence may induce institutional change. Deforestation can be legal or illegal in the model: each district decides how much to …

management, and unsustainable forest exploitation in the form of illegal logging to explore deforestation and agricultural and … to increase deforestation by increasing both land conversion to agriculture and illegal logging. Contrary to current …, and thus deforestation. Confiscation risk decreases timber supply from unsustainable forestry practices while the affect …