This paper provides a survey of 'first wave'economic studies of tropical deforestation and
land use. These studies of tropical forest land conversion are generally at the cross‐country …

This paper reviews the literature of an unresolved question in environmental economics, the
environmental Kuznets curve for deforestation (EKCd). It begins by summarizing the general …

This paper investigates the contribution of agricultural output prices and policies to the
reduction in Amazon deforestation in the 2000s. Based on a panel of Amazon municipalities …

This article, which synthesizes the results of more than 140 economic models analyzing the
causes of tropical deforestation, raises significant doubts about many conventional …

Rural roads promote economic development, but they also facilitate deforestation. To
explore this tradeoff this article develops a spatially explicit model of land use and estimates …

In 2008, the Brazilian government made the concession of rural credit in the Amazon
conditional upon stricter requirements as an attempt to curb forest clearings. This article …

Analysing the trend of land use/land cover change and its cause and consequence on
human livelihoods as well as on the environment is a matter of concern for sustainable …

Ten years ago, Blueprint for a Green Economy made front-page news. Its central message,
that environmental problems have their roots in economic'failures', served to change the …

We study the consequences of poverty-alleviation programs for environmental degradation.
We exploit the community-level eligibility discontinuity for a conditional cash transfer …

The following paper investigates the economic determinants of land degradation in
developing countries. The main trends examined are rural household's decisions to degrade …