COVID-19 impacts on Amazon deforestation
We leverage spatial variation in the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic across Peru to examine its impacts on deforestation. We find that COVID-19 explains one-third of the increase in deforestation in 2020. We estimate that a 10 % increase in COVID-19 cases increases deforestation by 1.5 %. This imp...
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| Main Authors: | Jerico Fiestas-Flores, Minoru Higa, Javier G. Montoya-Zumaeta |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2025-06-01
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| Series: | Trees, Forests and People |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666719325001141 |
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