Reductions in emissions from deforestation from Indonesia’s moratorium on new oil palm, timber, and logging concessions
Abstract
Significance Our paper is significant in a number of respects. First, we expand the literature on quasi-experimental evaluation of the causal impact of conservation measures to include agricultural concessions. Second, our report is rare in that we use panel data and techniques in a literature on spatially explicit land-use change econometrics that has necessarily relied upon cross-sectional analyses because of data-availability constraints. Third, our report is rare among land-use change scenario analyses in that we calibrate the effect of land-use designations empirically, rather than assuming idealized perfect effectiveness of conservation measures or complete conversion without such measures. Finally, we compare the effectiveness of place-based policies with alternative price-based instruments for climate-change mitigation within a globally significant landscape.
Reference
Jonah Busch; Kalifi Ferretti-Gallon; Jens Engelmann; Max Wright; Kemen G. Austin; Fred Stolle; Svetlana Turubanova; Peter V. Potapov; Belinda Margono; Matthew C. Hansen; Alessandro Baccini. (2015). Reductions in emissions from deforestation from Indonesia’s moratorium on new oil palm, timber, and logging concessions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1412514112
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