Pressure cookers or pressure valves: Do roads lead to deforestation in China?

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 79-94

  Deng, Xiangzheng ^a   Huang, Jikun ^a   Uchida, Emi ^b   Rozelle, Scott ^c   Gibson, John ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Afforestation; Covariate matching; Deforestation; Forest; Forest cover; Jiangxi; Land use; OLS; One kilometer square pixel; Road

Indexed keywords

AFFORESTATION; COVARIATES; FOREST; FOREST COVER; JIANGXI; OLS; ONE KILOMETER SQUARE PIXEL; ROAD;

DEFORESTATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; PIXELS; REFORESTATION; REMOTE SENSING; ROADS AND STREETS; SOIL TESTING; WATERSHEDS;

TRANSPORTATION;

AFFORESTATION; BUILDING; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DEFORESTATION; FOREST COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; REMOTE SENSING; ROAD; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

DEFORESTATION; FORESTATION; FORESTS; LAND USE; REFORESTATION; REMOTE SENSING; ROADS; SOIL; TESTING; TRANSPORT; WATER SHEDS;

CHINA; JIANGXI;

EID: 78650309541     PISSN: 00950696     EISSN: 10960449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2010.04.005     Document Type: Article

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