Topic
Deforestation
70 published works
The Right Coast
Why Everything They Say About The Amazon, Including That It’s The “Lungs Of The World,” Is Wrong
I was curious to hear what one of the world s leading Amazon forest experts, Dan Nepstad, had to say about the lungs claim. It s bullshit, he said. There…
Global Policy Watch
The Week Ahead in the European Parliament – March 31, 2017
Summary Next week will be an interesting plenary in Strasbourg with a mixture of votes on various long-awaited topics. On Monday, the Parliament will debate a draft report prepared by…
The Right Coast
Death in the Amazon: Triple Murder Renews Friction Over Rain-Forest Growth – WSJ.com
HUMAITÁ, Brazil On a muggy February day, police made a grisly find on an Indian reservation in Brazil's Amazon: the bodies of three men last seen driving toward the reserve…
PropertyProf Blog
Liscow on Property Rights and Deforestation
By propertyprof
Zachary Liscow (Berkeley - Ph.D.) has posted Do Property Rights Promote Investment But Cause Deforestation? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Nicaragua (Journal of Environmental Economics) on SSRN. Here's the abstract:Many policymakers argue…
Land Use Prof Blog
Prevent Deforestation and You Get Reforestation
Sometimes it is the studies with obvious sounding results that are the most helpful. A recent study of protected forest areas in Costa Rica examined levels of regrowth in those…
International Law Prof Blog
May 22 is Biological Diversity Day
May 22 is the International Day for Biological Diversity. UN Secretary Ban Ki Moon is using the day to highlight concerns about deforestation and is urging the 193 States Parties to…
Land Use Prof Blog
International perspective: land use law and property in the Amazon
When I was kid in the 1970s, I thought that if I really wanted to get out of going to school, I could head for the Brazilian Amazon, which…
Land Use Prof Blog
More land put to the plow … and more problems …
With the dollar plummeting and the reputation of the United States at a low point throughout much of the world, in which ways is the United States still the…
PropertyProf Blog
Alix-Garcia on Common Property Deforestation
By propertyprof
Jennifer Alix-Garcia (University of Montana, Dep't of Economics) has posted A Spatial Analysis of Common Property Deforestation on SSRN. Here's the abstract: This paper develops and tests a theory of…
Land Use Prof Blog
The international debate over use vs. preservation …
[Global Saturday] It's happening all over the world -- While environmentalists implore third world nations to preserve their natural resources, governments and local residents see quick profits from using the…