Deforestation and the Environmental Kuznets Curve in Iran

Autor:	Fatemeh Nasrnia, Abdoulkarim Esmaeili
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	education.field_of_study Land use Natural resource economics Forest management Population Forestry Environmental economics Terms of trade Kuznets curve Price index Property rights Deforestation Economics education
Zdroj:	Small-scale Forestry. 13:397-406
ISSN:	1873-7854 1873-7617
DOI:	10.1007/s11842-014-9261-y
Popis:	Property rights, the agricultural price index, forest area, population, income and timber price are important factors in the deforestation process. The aim of this study was to test the impact of these factors on deforestation in Iran using an environmental Kuznets curve (EKC). The autoregressive distributed lag approach was also used to estimate the deforestation function. The existence of an inverted U-shaped EKC for deforestation in Iran was confirmed. In addition, there is evidence of a relationship between deforestation and property rights, forest area, agricultural price index and terms of trade. It is concluded that improvement of secure property rights and environmental policies can improve compliance regarding forest land use and reduce the deforestation rate in Iran.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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