Do Trees Grow with the Economy? A Spatial Analysis of the Determinants of Forest Cover Change in Sichuan, China

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 61-82

  Zhao, Huixia ^a   Uchida, Emi ^a   Deng, Xiangzheng ^b   Rozelle, Scott ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Economic growth; Environmental Kuznets Curve; Forest resources; Remote sensing; Spatial econometrics

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FORESTRY; LAND USE; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICS;

CHINA; ECONOMIC GROWTHS; ENVIRONMENTAL KUZNETS CURVES; FOREST RESOURCES; SPATIAL ECONOMETRICS;

ECONOMICS;

ECONOMETRICS; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FOREST COVER; FOREST RESOURCE; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; KUZNETS CURVE; LAND USE; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; PANEL DATA; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TREE;

CHINA; SICHUAN;

EID: 80051668116     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-011-9462-1     Document Type: Article

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