The Causes of Tropical Deforestation (1994) is an analysis of the problem of deforestation, using statistical technique – a form of ‘environ-metrics’ – to discover the true causes of an issue whose basis is hotly debated.

Part 1. The Issues 1. Saving the World’s Tropical Forests David Pearce and Katrina Brown 2. Tropical Deforestation: Rates and Patterns Norman Myers Part 2. Explaining Global Deforestation 3. Population and Deforestation Matti Palo 4. International Debt and Deforestation James Kahn and Judith McDonald 5. Tropical Forest Depletion and the Changing Macroeconomy, 1967–85 Ana Doris Capistrano 6. Macroeconomic Causes of Deforestation: Barking up the Wrong Tree? Nemat Shafiq 7. Population, Development and Tropical Deforestation: A Cross-National Study Thomas Rudel 8. Population, Land Use and the Environment in Developing Countries: What Can We Learn from Cross-National Data? Richard Bilsborrow and Martha Geores 9. Tropical Deforestation and Agricultural Development in Latin America Douglas Southgate Part 3. Country Case Studies 10. The Causes of Tropical Deforestation: A Quantitative Analysis and Case Study from the Philippines David Kummer and Chi Ho Sham 11. Incentives for Tropical Deforestation: Some Examples from Latin America Dennis Mahar and Robert Schneider 12. An Econometric Model of Amazon Deforestation Eustáquio Reis and Rolando Guzmán 13. An Econometric Analysis of the Causes of Tropical Deforestation: the Case of Northern Thailand Theodore Panayotou and Somthawin Sungsuwan 14. Deforestation in Thailand Chiara Lombardini 15. Government Failure and Deforestation in Indonesia Diane Osgood 16. An Analysis of the Causes of Deforestation in India Manab Chakraborty Part 4. The Tropical Timber Trade 17. The Timber Trade and Tropical Deforestation in Indonesia Edward Barbier, Nancy Bockstael, Joanne Burgess and Ivar Strand 18. Deforestation: the Role of the international Trade in Tropical Timber Edward Barbier, Joanne Burgess, Josh Bishop and Bruce Aylward 19. The Tropical Timber Trade and Sustainable Development Jeffrey Vincent