Tsurumi, Tetsuya; Managi, Shunsuke - In: Environmental Economics and Policy Studies 16 (2014) 4, pp. 305-324
This study explores the effect of trade openness on deforestation. Previous studies do not find a clear effect of trade … openness on deforestation. We use updated data on the annual rate of deforestation for 142 countries from 1990 to 2003, treat … an increase in trade openness increases deforestation for non-OECD countries while slowing down deforestation for OECD …