| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w23272 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 23272 |
| Tropical Forests, Tipping Points, and the Social Cost of Deforestation | |
| Sergio L. Franklin, Jr.; Robert S. Pindyck | |
| 发表日期 | 2017-03-27 |
| 出版年 | 2017 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Recent work has suggested that tropical forest and savanna represent alternative stable states, which are subject to drastic switches at tipping points, in response to changes in rainfall patterns and other drivers. Deforestation cost studies have ignored the likelihood and possible economic impact of a forest-savanna critical transition, therefore underestimating the true social cost of deforestation. We explore the implications of a forest-savanna critical transition and propose an alternative framework for calculating the economic value of a standing tropical forest. Our framework is based on an average incremental cost method, as opposed to currently used marginal cost methods, for the design of optimal land-use policy or payments for ecosystem services. We apply this framework to the calculation of the social cost of deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Mathematical Tools ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Environment |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w23272 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/580946 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Sergio L. Franklin, Jr.,Robert S. Pindyck. Tropical Forests, Tipping Points, and the Social Cost of Deforestation. 2017. |
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| w23272.pdf（258KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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