Economic Development and Forest Cover: Evidence from Satellite Data

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http://eprints.org/relation/isVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/75460 http://eprints.org/relation/isVolatileVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/75460 http://eprints.org/relation/issmallThumbnailVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/75460 archive 2 disk0/00/01/42/52 2017-01-16 14:14:41 2022-10-19 05:00:42 2017-01-16 14:14:41 article show 1 Crespo Cuaresma J. 1838 Danylo O. 8670 Fritz S. 8130 0000-0003-0420-8549 McCallum I. 1731 0000-0002-5812-9988 Obersteiner M. 7255 0000-0001-6981-2769 See L. 8571 0000-0002-2665-7065 Walsh B. 8806 0000-0003-1689-2309 Economic Development and Forest Cover: Evidence from Satellite Data pub prog_esm prog_pop environmental impact, forestry Ongoing deforestation is a pressing, global environmental issue with direct impacts on climate change, carbon emissions, and biodiversity. There is an intuitive link between economic development and overexploitation of natural resources including forests, but this relationship has proven difficult to establish empirically due to both inadequate data and convoluting geo-climactic factors. In this analysis, we use satellite data on forest cover along national borders in order to study the determinants of deforestation differences across countries. Controlling for trans-border geo-climactic differences, we find that income per capita is the most robust determinant of differences in cross-border forest cover. We show that the marginal effect of per capita income growth on forest cover is strongest at the earliest stages of economic development, and weakens in more advanced economies, presenting some of the strongest evidence to date for the existence of at least half of an environmental Kuznets curve for deforestation. 2017 doi:10.1038/srep40678 58 59 98 202 219 276 322 public Scientific Reports 7 art.no.40678 TRUE 2045-2322 Funding through the EU project “Strengthening Independent Monitoring of GHG Emissions from Land Activities for Publishing, Comparing and Reconciling Estimates”, funded by European Commission DG CLIMA N° CLIMA.A.2/ETU/2014/0008. FALSE no info:eu-repo/semantics/article