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COVID-19 impacts on Amazon deforestation
Abstract
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 impact is exacerbated in districts with coca production or illegal mining. Pandemic-driven deforestation increased CO2 emissions by over 8 million tons, representing a social cost five times the national budget for forest management. These findings underscore the vulnerability of environmental monitoring and enforcement to external shocks in developing countries.
Details
- Organisationseinheit(en)
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Institut für Umweltplanung
- Externe Organisation(en)
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Universidad de los Andes (Uniandes)
University of Bern
- Typ
- Artikel
- Journal
- Trees, Forests and People
- Band
- 20
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 8
- Publikationsdatum
- 06.2025
- Publikationsstatus
- Veröffentlicht
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Forstwissenschaften, Volkswirtschaftslehre, Ökonometrie und Finanzen (sonstige), Management, Monitoring, Politik und Recht
- Elektronische Version(en)
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tfp.2025.100888 (Zugang:
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