The colonial origins of deforestation: an institutional analysis

Autor: Sébastien Marchand
Přispěvatelé: Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement International (CERDI), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA), Université d'Auvergne - Clermont-Ferrand I (UdA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA)
Rok vydání: 2015
Předmět:
JEL: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods/C.C0 - General/C.C0.C01 - Econometrics
Economics and Econometrics
Corruption
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JEL: K - Law and Economics/K.K4 - Legal Procedure
the Legal System
and Illegal Behavior
Developing country
Development
Colonialism
JEL: K - Law and Economics/K.K3 - Other Substantive Areas of Law
Deforestation
0502 economics and business
Development economics
Economics
Institutional analysis
050207 economics
Colonial legacies
General Environmental Science
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[SHS.STAT]Humanities and Social Sciences/Methods and statistics
Institutional persistence
Corporate governance
05 social sciences
1. No poverty
[SDV.SA.AEP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences/Agriculture
economy and politics
15. Life on land
JEL: O - Economic Development
Innovation
Technological Change
and Growth/O.O1 - Economic Development/O.O1.O13 - Agriculture • Natural Resources • Energy • Environment • Other Primary Products
[SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance
[SDE.ES]Environmental Sciences/Environmental and Society
Democracy
JEL: Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics • Environmental and Ecological Economics/Q.Q2 - Renewable Resources and Conservation/Q.Q2.Q23 - Forestry
Property rights
[SHS.ENVIR]Humanities and Social Sciences/Environmental studies
050202 agricultural economics & policy
cerdi
Zdroj: Environment and Development Economics
Environment and Development Economics, 2016, 21 (3), pp.318-349. ⟨10.1017/S1355770X1500025X⟩
Environment and Development Economics, 2015, 21 (3), pp.318-349
Environment and Development Economics, Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2016, 21 (3), pp.318-349. ⟨10.1017/S1355770X1500025X⟩
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ISSN: 1469-4395
1355-770X
DOI: 10.1017/s1355770x1500025x
Popis: This paper investigates whether inherited colonial legacies influence deforestation rates in 60 former colonized developing countries. It is hypothesized that differences in deforestation among countries can be attributed to their colonial legacies shaping the current impact of the institutional background on deforestation. Overall, the author finds that institutions defined as the extent of democracy, the quality of property rights and the quality of government functioning (e.g., corruption), have a differential impact on deforestation rates according to colonial legacies as defined by the identity of the colonizer. More precisely, it is found that: (1) in countries characterized by ‘bad’ governance, former French colonies deforest relatively less than former British and Spanish colonies; whereas (2) in countries characterized by ‘good’ governance, the result is reversed. These results are robust when geography features are controlled for since the process of colonization was not random and depended on initial geographic and climatic conditions.
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