Can economic causes of tropical deforestation be identified at a global level?

Ecological Economics

Volumn 62, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 603-612

  Scrieciu, S Serban ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Macroeconomic factors; Panel data regressions; Tropical deforestation

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; DEFORESTATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TROPICAL FOREST;

EID: 34247627287     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2006.07.028     Document Type: Article

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