Forests and Development: Local, National and Global Issues

This book is a fully up to date study of the major issues facing forest conservation and the forestry industry taking into account developments at local, national and global levels. Central to the analysis is the plight of tropical forests in the developing world but rather than employ a broad brush and imprecise approach, Delacote makes use of the invaluable mathematical economics to produce a range of interesting conclusions. Indeed, one of the book's main objectives is to provide empirical economists with some important results they will be able to properly test. The book should be of crucial interest to all scholars of environmental and development economics.