Warming from tropical deforestation reduces worker productivity in rural communities

It is expected that tropical deforestation and related increases in heat exposure have negative impacts on labour productivity, but the size of the effect is not well known. Here, the authors show that deforestation reduces productivity by 8.22% in rural Indonesia and causes behavioural adaptation r...

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Main Authors: Yuta J. Masuda, Teevrat Garg, Ike Anggraeni, Kristie Ebi, Jennifer Krenz, Edward T. Game, Nicholas H. Wolff, June T. Spector
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21779-z