Examples of deforestation

• The common assumption that if there is national deforestation, then there is a felt need to plant trees, needs to be reexamined.

• The lack of a precise measure of the appropriate deforestation process is a serious limitation of previous studies on the topic.

• This would require massive deforestation around the world, and conversion of many fragile hillsides and drylands to cropping for which they are environmentally unsuitable.

• Chapter 1, written by the editors, opens by describing the scope of the book and the role of local institutions in deforestation.

• Using observed past deforestation, we find that while risk-targeted payments are far more efficient, capped flat payments are more egalitarian.

• Damage inflicted by upstream deforestation on downstream farmers without compensation is an example of the former.

• For example, what factors are the leading causes for tropical deforestation, and what global policy agendas can be adopted to halt this process most effectively?

• Fuel wood from improved fallows on far m may provide a means to conserve the natural vegetation, which is under threat due to deforestation.