Poor nations’ economies grow with rising deforestation

[NAIROBI] Poor countries’ economic growth increases with deforestation rates but the effect disappears in wealthier economies, a study says.

根据研究人员的说法，气候因素和不足数据make it difficult to establish the link between economic development and overexploitation of natural resources.

But using satellite data, researchers were able to assess the link between deforestation rates and economic factors across countries.

“Our results quantify the potential costs that such policies could potentially have in terms of forest cover loss.”

Jesús Crespo Cuaresma, Vienna University of Economics and Business

The study published this month (16 January) in the journalScientific Reportsfound that as developing countries become richer, a decrease in forest cover occurs, but such a relationship disappears at higher levels of income per capita.

“This implies that increases in deforestation, in particular inSub-Saharan Africa预计，贫困经济体的人均收入汇合到发达国家的收入。

研究人员收集了森林覆盖的遥感数据，并将它们与其他宏观经济变量结合在一起，使他们能够确定人均收入与森林砍伐之间的经验关系。

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鉴于避免衰变的重要性森林stocks to counteract climate change, our paper provides evidence to understand and quantify the potential losses in terms ofbeplay足球体育的微博环境的depletion implied by development policies in Sub-Saharan Africa,” Cuaresma notes.

他解释说，这项研究对于非洲大陆和有兴趣设计发展政策工具的国际组织的决策者尤其重要。

“我们的结果量化了此类政策在森林覆盖损失方面可能产生的潜在成本，” Cuaresma告诉。网络，解释基于证据的发展政策should be enacted to minimise deforestation and combat the negative effects of climate change.

根据Cuaresma的说法，这种政策可以使非洲次级非洲和世界其他地区受益。


肯尼亚森林服务局经济学负责人塞缪尔·穆里西（Samuel Muriithi）表示，这项研究有助于解释可持续发展。

“This study can be useful in policy formulation,” Muriithi tells。网。

他呼吁需要欣赏森林砍伐如何影响地方和全球层面的经济。

穆里西说森林conservation可以帮助减少贫困。他引用养蜂人，鱼farming以及生态旅游作为可以帮助多样化的当地经济的方法，并使人们对森林的生计不依赖森林。


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