Atkinson, Giles; Gundimeda, Haripriya - Madras School of Economics - 2006
In this paper, we account for forest wealth in India. Changes in the timber and carbon wealth embodied in these forests … valuation of these releases. Our empirical findings suggest that while India’s forest wealth is substantial, net changes in this …-diluting effects of population growth this implies a far larger additional savings effort is required to cover the (net) loss in forest …