degradation is rising rapidly. Deforestation of closed forests in recent years has taken place at the fastest rate among major …

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 …

Indonesia now has the highest deforestation rate in the world, with an average increase of about 47,600 ha per year. As … small amount focuses on the relationship between migration and deforestation. Migration may contribute to the forest cover … investigates the relationship between recent in-migration and deforestation in Indonesia. By combining available population census …

Keywords: land-use change, farm households, deforestation, meta-analysis, micro-level … countries. This is surprising, since evi-dence hints at high deforestation rates in South-East Asia due to logging activities …