This paper deals with private forest owners' insurance demand against forest fire risk. Econometric analysis is realized on a sample of forest owners from Aquitaine. It allows identifying determinants of participation to insurance from determinants explaining the difference of willingness-to-pay...

The resource curse hypothesis relies on the resource-rich countries tendency to grow slower than resource-poor countries. Focusing on forest issues, this paper extends the resource curse hypothesis to environmental degradation: how do forest endowment and forest harvesting affect deforestation?...