Spatial Causality. An application to the Deforestation Process in Bolivia

This paper analyses the causes of deforestation for a representative set of Bolivian municipalities. The literature on environmental economics insists on the importance of physical and social factors. We focus on the last group of variables. Our objective is to identify causal mechanisms between the...

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Main Authors: Javier Aliaga, Marcos Herrera, Daniel Leguía, Jesús Mur, Manuel Ruiz, Horacio Villegas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AECR 2011-01-01
Series:Investigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research
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Online Access:http://www.aecr.org/images/ImatgesArticles/2012/3/11_ALIAGA.pdf