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Vyāghranomics in space and time: Estimating habitat threats for Bengal, Indochinese, Malayan and Sumatran tigers

Dasgupta, Susmita; Hammer, Dan; Kraft, Robin; Wheeler, David - In: Journal of Policy Modeling 36 (2014) 3, pp. 433-453

The wild tiger population in tropical Asia has dropped from about 100,000 to 3500 in the last century, and the need to conserve tiger habitats poses a challenge for the Global Tiger Recovery Program. This paper develops and uses a high-resolution monthly forest clearing database for 74 tiger...

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Economic dynamics and forest clearing: A spatial econometric analysis for Indonesia

Wheeler, David; Hammer, Dan; Kraft, Robin; Dasgupta, Susmita - In: Ecological Economics 85 (2013) C, pp. 85-96

This paper uses a large panel database to investigate the determinants of forest clearing in Indonesian kabupatens since 2005. Our study incorporates short-run changes in prices and demands for palm oil and wood products, as well as the exchange rate, the real interest rate, land-use zoning,...

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Protected Areas and Deforestation : New Results from High Resolution Panel Data

Blankespoor, Brian - 2014

Asia/Pacific, Africa, and Latin America for the period 2001-2012. The investigation compares deforestation rates inside and … within 10 kilometers outside the boundary of protected areas. Annual time series of these deforestation rates were … of park characteristics was conducted to test if deforestation is lower in protected areas because of their protected …

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Minimizing ecological damage from road improvement in tropical forests

Dasgupta, Susmita; Wheeler, David - 2016

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Protected areas and deforestation : new results from high resolution panel data

Blankespoor, Brian; Dasgupta, Susmita; Wheeler, David - 2014

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Potential forest loss and biodiversity risks from road improvement in Lao PDR

Danyo, Stephen; Dasgupta, Susmita; Wheeler, David - 2018

This paper develops and applies a spatial econometric model that links road upgrading to forest clearing and biodiversity loss in the Lao People's Democratic Republic. The paper uses 500-meter cells to estimate the relationship between the rate of forest clearing in a cell and its distance to...

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