AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST LANDUSE CHANGES, AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL KUZNETS CURVE FOR DEFORESTATION: AN INTERTEMPORAL DYNAMIC EQUILIBRIUM

Bhattarai, Madhusudan; Hammig, Michael D.; Paudel, Krishna P.

doi:10.22004/ag.econ.20174

AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST LANDUSE CHANGES, AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL KUZNETS CURVE FOR DEFORESTATION: AN INTERTEMPORAL DYNAMIC EQUILIBRIUM

Bhattarai, Madhusudan ; Hammig, Michael D. ; Paudel, Krishna P.

This study is an investigation of the process of land conversion from forest to agricultural production, and assessing the factors affecting the process. We also analyze the conditions that would ultimately lead to the EKC type of relationship between deforestation and societal income in an economy.

Subject(s):

Land Economics/Use

Issue Date:

2004

Publication Type:

Conference Paper/ Presentation

DOI and Other Identifiers:

10.22004/ag.econ.20174

Record Identifier:

https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/20174

PURL Identifier:

http://purl.umn.edu/20174