Do China’s Environmental Gains at Home Fuel Forest Loss Abroad?: A Cross-National Analysis
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https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2019.761Keywords:
China, Ecologically unequal exchange, Forest lossAbstract
The theory and empirical research on ecologically unequal exchange serves as the starting point for this study. We expand the research frontier it in a novel way by applying the theory to China and empirically testing if forestry export flows from low-and middle-income nations to China are related to increased forest loss in the exporting nations. In doing so, we analyze data for 75 low-and middle-income nations using ordinary least squares regression and find support for our main hypothesis.
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