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Determinants of Deforestation and the Economics of Protection: An Application to Mexico
Author(s) -
Deininger Klaus,
Minten Bart
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
american journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.949
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1467-8276
pISSN - 0002-9092
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8276.00359
Subject(s) - deforestation (computer science) , biodiversity , relevance (law) , natural resource economics , value (mathematics) , economics , plot (graphics) , geography , ex ante , ecology , political science , statistics , biology , mathematics , macroeconomics , computer science , law , programming language
We estimate the probability of deforestation at the plot level for Chiapas and Oaxaca, two poor Mexican states with high levels of biodiversity. Results highlight the importance of physio‐geographic endowments as well as policy variables and allow to test explicitly for aggregation bias. They also suggest that, if combined with information on the biodiversity value of specific plots, such models could be of great relevance for policy by allowing to identify the ex ante risk of deforestation.