REDD and forest transition: Tunneling through the environmental Kuznets curve

Culas, Richard

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2012.04.015

Cited by 143 publications

(57 citation statements)

References 47 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Until now, the wide empirical macroeconomic studies on deforestation (using panel data on deforestation at a country level, provided by FAO) have given useful results concerning the factors that account for periodic deforestation rates (annual or over a five-year period). First, the literature questioned the impact of economic development on deforestation, by investigating the existence of an Environmental Kuznets Curve for deforestation (most recently Culas (2012); Busa (2013); Chiu (2012)). Those studies bring very contrasted results, as shown in the meta-analysis by Choumert et al (2013).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

An empirical analysis of forest transition and land-use change in developing countries

Wolfersberger

Delacote

Garcia

2015

Ecological Economics

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

An empirical analysis of forest transition and land-use change in developing countries

Wolfersberger

Delacote

Garcia

2015

Ecological Economics

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…The EKC for deforestation hypothesizes the existence of an inverted U-shaped relationship between indicators of deforestation and economic growth. However, depending on the geographic regions in the study, the time period of the study and other control variables used in the model, results are mixed (Cropper and Griffiths 1994, Bhattarai and Hammig 2001, Ehrhardt-Martinez et al 2002, Meyer et al 2003, Culas 2012). Similar to most previous studies, we take GDP per capita (GDPPC) as a control variable in the regression.…”

Section: Control Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effects of economic globalization and trade on forest transitions: Evidence from 76 developing countries

Liu

Cheng

et al. 2017

The Forestry Chronicle

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Current forest recovery efforts in developing countries are different from previous efforts in developed countries, especially since the rise of economic globalization in the 1980s. Therefore, forest transition theory should now consider factors relating to industrialization, urbanization, and globalization. While previous studies have mainly focused on the variable trade of primary sector products, this study applies a more holistic research perspective and discusses, more widely, the links between trade, adjustment of trade structure, FDI, and forest transition. The results suggest that the total export value has a significant negative effect on forest area and volume, while the percentage of non-primary products has a significant positive impact on forest volume and density in the 76 developing countries studied. These results indicate that a country or region may improve the forest resource conditions by upgrading the export structure through the development of export-oriented manufacturing and service industries during the process of global industrial restructuring. This demonstrates the need to consider the overall global economic situation of a country when exploring the effects of economic globalization on forest transitions. In addition, this study attempts to address extant concerns regarding the quality of forest transitions by moving beyond the analysis of forest coverage to explore changes in both forest area and forest volume.Keywords: forest transition; reforestation; economic globalization; trade RÉSUMÉ Présentement, les efforts consacrés à la régénération forestière dans les pays en voie de développement diffèrent de ceux que les pays développés y consacraient auparavant en raison surtout de l'avènement de la mondialisation économique au cours des années '80. C' est pourquoi la théorie sur la transition forestière devrait maintenant tenir compte des facteurs liés à l'industrialisation, à l'urbanisation et à la mondialisation. Si les études précédentes ont surtout porté sur le commerce changeant pour les produits du secteur primaire, cette étude adopte une approche plus holistique et traite de façon plus globale des liens entre le commerce, les changements à la structure commerciale, l'IDE et la transition forestière. Les résul-tats laissent voir qu'une hausse de la valeur totale des exportations se traduit par une baisse significative de la surface des forêts et le volume forestier alors que l'augmentation du pourcentage de produits transformés influence positivement le volume et la densité forestière dans les 76 pays en voie de développent faisant l' objet de cette étude. Ces résultats laissent entrevoir qu'un pays ou une région pourrait améliorer l' état de ses ressources forestières si elle modernisait sa structure d' exportation en favorisant la croissance d'industries manufacturières et de services en marge une restructuration industrielle globale. De là l'importance de considérer l' ensemble de la situation économique d'un pays lorsqu' on veut connaître les effets de la mondialisat...

show abstract

“…Among the various socioeconomic factors, those that most correlate with agricultural expansion include crop prices and production costs (6), the need to generate foreign exchange earnings to service external debt (21), per capita gross domestic product (GDP) (22) and population (4,5).…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Governance, agricultural intensification, and land sparing in tropical South America

Ceddia

Bardsley

Gómez-y-Paloma

et al. 2014

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

118

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Significance Tropical South America has forest resources of global significance but exhibits a relatively high rate of deforestation. As agricultural expansion remains the most important cause of forest loss and degradation there, it is important to understand its main drivers. In this paper we address two important questions: How do the quality of governance and agricultural intensification combine to impact the spatial expansion of agriculture? Which aspects of governance are more likely to ensure that agricultural intensification allows sparing land for nature? By distinguishing between conventional and environmental dimensions of governance (which includes also the establishment of protected areas), we investigate which of these two aspects, by interacting with the process of agricultural intensification, is likely to promote land sparing.

show abstract

REDD and forest transition: Tunneling through the environmental Kuznets curve

Cited by 143 publications

References 47 publications

An empirical analysis of forest transition and land-use change in developing countries

An empirical analysis of forest transition and land-use change in developing countries

Effects of economic globalization and trade on forest transitions: Evidence from 76 developing countries

Governance, agricultural intensification, and land sparing in tropical South America

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About