The rate of deforestation in Africa is of paramount concern not only to the future of Africa, but also to the world … deforestation. Using generalized linear mixed models and generalised estimating equations, we were able to calculate expected …

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 …

Individual countries considering participating in a Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD …) mechanism need information on what it would cost them to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and how to … the country would benefit from such sales; (iii) how they might be able to actually reduce deforestation so as to generate …

they can achieve. The present paper, elucidates the issue of deforestation and degradation in reserved forests of Assam in …

last decades, the deforestation was linked mainly to economic factors than to policies conducted by the government. The …

The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the relationship between land inequality and deforestation in the Brazilian … statistical evidence to support the existence of a direct relationship between land inequality and deforestation. Nevertheless …, when one takes into account the effects of land inequality on deforestation through its interaction with credit and land …

Shifting cultivation is often blamed as a principal cause of deforestation in tropical Africa. It is claimed that the … dramatic conclusion that shifting cultivators are causing deforestation in the forested region of Cameroon. …

The present working paper includes a literature review of deforestation drivers both at the international level and … dynamics of land use change as well as to the understanding of the causes of deforestation in Mexico. The results provide …

. In this context, this study sheds light on the fusion of legal and economic elements with regard to deforestation in …