Projecting Global and Regional Forest Area under the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways Using an Updated Environmental Kuznets Curve Model

Forest resources are critical to environmental, economic, and social development, and there is substantial interest in understanding how global forest area will evolve in the future. Using an Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) model of total forest area that we updated using more recent data sets, we...

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Main Authors: Prakash Nepal, Jaana Korhonen, Jeffrey P. Prestemon, Frederick W. Cubbage
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-04-01
Series:Forests
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/10/5/387