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Author:   Katrina Brown ,  David Pearce
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
Imprint:   University of British Columbia Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.720kg
ISBN:  

9780774805117

ISBN 10:   0774805110
Pages:   355
Publication Date:   01 January 1994
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Preface and Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors I. The Issues 1. Saving the world's tropical forests 2. Tropical deforestation: rates and patterns II. Explaining Global Deforestation 3. Population and deforestation 4. International debt and deforestation 5. Tropical forest depletion and the changing macroeconomy,1967-85 6. Macroeconomic causes of deforestation: barking up the wrongtree? 7. Population, development and tropical deforestation: across-national study 8. Population, land-use and the environment in developing countries:what can we learn from cross-national data? 9. Tropical deforestation and agricultural developments in LatinAmerica III. Country Case Studies 10. The causes of tropical deforestation: a quantitative analysisand case study from the Philippines 11. Incentives for tropical deforestation: some examples from LatinAmerica 12. An econometric model of Amazon deforestation 13. An econometric analysis of the causes of tropical deforestation:the case of Northeast Thailand 14. Deforestation in Thailand 15. Government failure and deforestation in Indonesia 16. An analysis of the causes of deforestation in India IV. The Tropical Timber Trade 17. The timber trade and tropical deforestation in Indonesia 18. Deforestation: the role of the international trade in tropicaltimber 19. The tropical timber trade and sustainable development References Index

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Katrina Brown (editor) is Senior Research Associate atCSERGE, University of East Anglia, and has a background in natural andsocial sciences. Her work concentrates on the conflicts betweendevelopment and environmental degradation, and on social and economicaspects of the conservation of biodiversity. DavidPearce (editor) is Professor of Economics at UniversityCollege London and Director of CSERGE, which is the UK's premierresearch centre examining global environmental issues. He is aninternationally renowned environmental economist, has published morethan fifty books, and has been awarded the UNEP Global 500 roll ofhonour.

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