Trade Liberalisation and Global-scale Forest Transition

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In this paper, we develop a theoretical model that provides an additional explanation for the forest transition based on a trade liberalisation scenario. Furthermore, in contrast with most explanations, in which the forest transition can only take place at a local level at the expense of other areas, ours is capable of supporting such phenomenon at a worldwide level. We introduce a renewable natural resource (wood), used as an input by manufacturing firms, in a framework with economic geography foundations: transport costs affect the distribution of firms between countries. In a general equilibrium, the results reproduce the forest transition at a global scale: a decrease in transport costs (in particular, that of the natural resource) has a negative effect on the worldwide stock of the natural resource in the short-term; however, this effect is offset during the transition as a consequence of industrial reallocation between countries and eventually disappears in the long-run.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Nota di Lavoro ; No. 70.2013

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Trade and Environment ; Renewable Resources and Conservation: General ; Renewable Resources and Conservation: Forestry ; Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
• Thema: Forest Transition ; Natural Resources ; Industrial Location ; Trade Liberalisation

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): González-Val, Rafael ; Pueyo, Fernando
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
• (wo): Milano
• (wann): 2013

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/89594
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ