This paper studies the long-run relationship between historical indigenous presence and modern tropical deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. We georeference information on the historical location of indigenous groups, which groups went extinct, and the likely underlying extinction causes. We...

Human actions can alter the local and regional climate, particularly via land use. We assess the impact of the Great Plains Shelterbelt, a large-scale forestation program in the 1930s which planted 220 million trees across six US Midwestern states. The program led to a regional increase in...

Land users make decisions in an increasingly dynamic environment. Changes in expectations are driven by market and non-market factors, but research on market related drivers of land use change so far dominates in the literature. This paper examines how political discourses affect deforestation...

Charcoal production to meet the cooking needs of urban households is one of the leading causes of deforestation and degradation of Africa’s tropical forests. We randomly distributed high-cost Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) stoves to urban households through subsidy and on credit and measured...

This paper assesses the impact of the Colombian internal armed conflict on local development processes and deforestation during 2000–2018. The paper develops a theoretical framework of the deforestation process, as determined by the spatiotemporal patterns of socio-economic and conflict...

Land users make decisions in an increasingly dynamic environment. Changes in expectations are driven by market and non-market factors, but research on market related drivers of land use change so far dominates in the literature. This paper examines how political discourses affect deforestation...

Investments in transportation infrastructure can impact the environment beyond their immediate surroundings. This paper builds an interregional trade model to estimate the general equilibrium effects of changes in infrastructure on deforestation. Using panel data on the evolution of the...

On May 17, 2023, the European Parliament published the regulation5 which aims to curb deforestation and forest degradation related to the production and supply chains of certain commodities and associated products such as cattle, cocoa, coffee, palm oil, soya, wood and rubber, as well as derived...

The curbed deforestation in China is a salient, but underexplored, phenomenon in the context of global deforestation. This study zooms in on the southern provinces of China and analyses what impacted deforestation from 2001 to 2016, with a special focus on the role of state forest policies. In...

The vast peat deposits in the Peruvian Amazon are crucial to the global climate. Palm swamp, the most extensive regional peatland ecosystem faces different threats, including deforestation and degradation due to felling of the dominant palm Mauritia flexuosa for fruit harvesting. While these...

In 2019, the European Commission presented the Green Deal as set of legislative and non-legislative proposals aiming to make the block net-zero in its emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050. To reduce the carbon footprint of EU imported consumption, the EU Deforestation Regulation proposes to...

The study investigates the role of local democracies on deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. It is argued that the political left in Brazil, who have formed alliances with various workers' groups, are more likely to defend the environment and the indigenous people. This is because protecting...

Some portions of land in Brazilian Amazon are forested, and other portions used in agriculture. Deforestation (reforestation) emits (captures) carbon, which has consequence for the global climate. The social and private productivities for these alternative land uses vary across locations within...

The impact of deforestation on child nutrition and health in poor regions of the world is a crucial topic to understand some of the implications of climate change on the wellbeing of the most vulnerable populations. I combine precise forest loss data with geocoded data from the Cambodian...

Around 75% of tropical deforestation in the XXI century has been driven by the expansion of agriculture and forest plantations. Since 1990s, palm oil has been standing for a critical global traded product in terms of embodied deforestation. The European Union (EU) is one of the major players in...

Research on payments for ecosystem services (PES) schemes indicates that few of them in fact implement full marketization on the ground, highlighting the need for better understanding of the performance of incompletely marketized PES models. One prominent example of a PES program with incomplete...

Commercial agriculture is one of the primary drivers of global deforestation, although the contribution of small-scale agriculture is increasing. Despite that, there are limited studies about the decision-making process of non-Western Educated Industrialized Rich Democratic societies. Hence,...

Can trade agreements motivate environmental conservation? I first present a model whereby the government in the South expands its production capacity (e.g., deforest) before trading with the North. After deriving negative relationships between tariff reductions and conservation, I show how all...

When agricultural productivity improves, farmers may react by expanding farming and further encroach on forest lands, or they may choose to intensify and produce more output with less land. We specify the conditions under which agricultural productivity can have such ambiguous effects on...

The purpose of this study is to understand the legal and policy constraints and opportunities in each of the 17-carbon fund (CF) countries affecting women's land and forest tenure. The study also explores women's ability to exercise land and forest rights in statutory and customary systems; how...

The study aims to investigate the dynamic impacts of economic growth, energy use, urbanization, agricultural productivity, and forested area on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in Kazakhstan. Time series data from 1996 to 2020 were utilized by employing the Dynamic Ordinary Least Squares (DOLS)...

This paper develops a dynamic spatial equlibrium model of Amazon deforestation, accounting for trade and labor markets dynamics. It uses this model to study the impact of local sectoral shocks and policies on deforestation. Conditional on the assumptions on key parameters, the analysis suggests...

Despite policy efforts in recent decades, deforestation remains a pervasive phenomenon in Brazil. Yet deforestation is not only affected by forest governance. It is also driven by global demand for commodities and the relative competitiveness of agriculture, which in turn depends on...

The purpose of this study is to understand the legal and policy constraints and opportunities in each of the 17-carbon fund (CF) countries affecting women's land and forest tenure. The study also explores women's ability to exercise land and forest rights in statutory and customary systems; how...

International agreements to reduce anthropogenic environmental disasters rely on public pressure driving local action. We study whether focused media and increased public outcry can drive local environmental action, reducing environmental damage. Although an annual affair, forest fires in the...

The current climate change debate puts forest conservation and halting deforestation at the forefront of the social and political agenda. This paper analyzes the relationship between forested area and economic growth for a sample of 19 Latin American countries. The selected region has extensive...

Charcoal production to meet the cooking needs of urban households is one of the leading causes of deforestation and degradation of Africa’s tropical forests. We randomly distributed Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) stoves to urban households in Tanzania through subsidy and on credit to measure...

In Brazil, public policies to encourage the production of oil palm aimed to minimize the associated potential deforestation in the Amazon. A decade after the initiative was launched, however, little is known about its effects on deforestation. This study investigated the spatio-temporal dynamics...

Global commodity supply chains contribute significantly to environmental degradation and greenhouse gas emissions. Improving supply chain transparency can create public awareness and incentivise relevant actors to improve their ecological footprint. We exploited Brazil’s blacklisting policy in...

Deforestation in the tropics is a critical issue that interacts with global environmental changes, and the mediating role of negative agricultural shocks is ambiguous. We investigate the impact of the massive epidemic of coffee leaf rust (CLR) that affected Central America from 2012 on...

We create a novel, spatially explicit microeconomic panel of Indonesian palm oil mills, to provide the first estimates of deforestation price elasticities based on observations of the actual prices paid at mill gates. To identify price elasticity, we spatially model how deforestation in upstream...

The majority of the world's land is held in customary tenure systems, often with overlapping claims. Designing effective policy to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation requires understanding land management choices within these systems. Using a nation-wide random sample of over...

We survey the literature on the economics of eCommerce with particular emphasis on the antitrust debate about Amazon. The business model of such a hybrid marketplace is based on monetization through referral fees on third party sellers hosted on the platform and direct margins on own products....

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are an opportunity to address major social and environmental challenges. As a widely agreed framework they offer a potential way to mobilise stakeholders on a global scale. The manner in which the goals, with time-based targets and specific metrics, are...

Concessions that grant logging rights to firms support economic development, based on forest resources. Eco-certifications place sustainability restrictions on the operation of such logging concessions. Using a spatially detailed panel and new DID estimators, we estimate the 2002-2018 impacts on...

Deforestation for agriculture is the primary threat to global aboveground carbon stocks. In the absence of strong territorial-governance, zero-deforestation commitments (ZDCs), corporate policies to decouple food production from deforestation, remain a central tool to combat this issue. Yet...

This working paper provides a detailed overview of the trade in wood-based or wood-containing products1 in the EU27 in 2020 and distinguishes products already under the scope of the EUTR and the proposed regulation of the European Commission on deforestation-free value chains, from products not...