Scale and context dependency of deforestation drivers: Insights from spatial econometrics in the tropics.

ABSTRACT: A better understanding of deforestation drivers across countries and spatial scales is a precondition for designing efficient international policies and coherent land use planning strategies such as REDD+. However, it is so far unclear if the well-studied drivers of tropical deforestation behave similarly across nested subnational jurisdictions, which is crucial for efficient policy implementation. We selected three countries in Africa, America and Asia, which present very different tropical contexts. Making use of spatial econometrics and a multi-level approach, we conducted a set of regressions comprising 3,035 administrative units from the three countries at micro-level, plus 361 and 49 at meso- and macro-level, respectively. We included forest cover as dependent variable and seven phys

SUBMITTER: Ferrer Velasco R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6988916 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature