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Does oil wealth help conserve the forests?

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Title Does oil wealth help conserve the forests?
 
Creator Wunder, Sven
 
Subject mining
oils
forest conservation
macroeconomics
tropical forests
forest damage
land use
 
Description A main target of environmental campaigns to save the rainforest has been to stop oil operations from damaging tropical forests. However, there is more to the oil-and-forest story than meets the eye. A comprehensive study of long-run land use changes in eight tropical oil-producing countries shows that oil wealth tends to favour higher forest-cover conservation, as oil's powerful macroeconomic effects curtail both logging and agricultural expansion. This findings implies that other financial transfers to developing countries, such as debt relief or remittances, are likely to have similar protective effects on the environment.
 
Date 2003
2012-06-04T09:06:31Z
2012-06-04T09:06:31Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Wunder, S. 2003. Does oil wealth help conserve the forests? . Sustainable Development International (Autumn 2003) :43-45.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/18482
https://www.cifor.org/knowledge/publication/1007
 
Language en
 
Format p. 43-45
 
Source Sustainable Development International