INTERNATIONAL POLICIES TO PROTECT THE TROPICAL RAIN FORESTS

Manfred Wiebelt

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INTERNATIONAL POLICIES TO PROTECT THE TROPICAL RAIN FORESTS

Manfred Wiebelt

resr, vol.36, n2, p.153-176, 1998

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This paper discusses alternative international policies to protect tropical rain forests with regard to these policies' ecological effectiveness and economic efficiency. It is argued that developed country transfers, either financial or real, are necessary to support national efforts and compensate tropical countries for protecting the global public goods necessary to stabilize the world's climate and maintain biodiversity. In contrast, protection of the tropical rain forests through the use of trade restrictions limiting tropical timber commerce is both ecologically ineffective and economically inefficient. Moreover, such trade restrictions shift the cost of tropical rain forest protection to tropical countries and are not acceptable from a distributional point of view.

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Tropical rain forests, international protection policies

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