| Titre : | The colonial origins of deforestation: an institutional analysis (2016) |
| Auteurs : | Sébastien Marchand, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article : Revues - Articles |
| Dans : | Environment and Development Economics (Vol. 21 N°3, June 2016) |
| Article en page(s) : | pp. 318-349 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Catégories : |
[Eurovoc] DROIT > droit civil > propriété des biens [Eurovoc] ÉCONOMIE > situation économique > développement économique > pays en développement [Eurovoc] ENVIRONNEMENT > détérioration de l'environnement > dégradation de l'environnement > déboisement [Eurovoc] RELATIONS INTERNATIONALES > politique internationale > indépendance nationale > colonialisme [Eurovoc] VIE POLITIQUE > pouvoir exécutif et administration publique > exécutif > gouvernance |
| Résumé : | This paper investigates whether inherited colonial legacies influence deforestation rates in 60 former colonized developing countries. It is hypothesized that differences in deforestation among countries can be attributed to their colonial legacies shaping the current impact of the institutional background on deforestation. Overall, the author finds that institutions defined as the extent of democracy, the quality of property rights and the quality of government functioning (e.g., corruption), have a differential impact on deforestation rates according to colonial legacies as defined by the identity of the colonizer. More precisely, it is found that: (1) in countries characterized by ‘bad’ governance, former French colonies deforest relatively less than former British and Spanish colonies; whereas (2) in countries characterized by ‘good’ governance, the result is reversed. These results are robust when geography features are controlled for since the process of colonization was not random and depended on initial geographic and climatic conditions. |
| Doi : |
DOI : 10.1017/S1355770X1500025X 
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| Axe de recherche : | Trajectoires de développement durable |
| En ligne : | https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01290789 |
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