Part 1 The issues: saving the world's tropical forests, David Pearce and Katrina Brown; tropical deforestation - rates and patterns, Norman Myers. Part 2 Explaining global deforestation: population and deforestation, Matti Palo; international debt and deforestation, James Kahn and Judith McDonald; tropical forest depletion and the changing macroeconomy, Ana Doris Capistrano; macroeconomic causes of deforestation - barking up the wrong tree?, Nemat Shafik; population, development, and tropical deforestation - a cross-national study, Thomas Rudel; population, land use and the environment in developing countries - what can we learn from cross-national data?, Richard Bilsborrow and Martha Geores; tropical deforestation and agricultural development in Latin America, Douglas Southgate. Part 3 Country case studies: the causes of deforestation - a quantitative analysis and case study from the Philippines, David Kummer and Chi Ho Sham; incentives for tropical deforestation - some examples from Latin America, Dennis Mahar and Robert Schneider; an econometric model of Amazon deforestation, Eustaquio Reis and Rolando Guzman; an econometric study of the causes of tropical deforestation - the case of North-East Thailand, Theo Panayotou and Somthawin Sunguswan; deforestation in Thailand, Chiara Lombardini; government failure and deforestation in Indonesia, Diane Osgood; an analysis of the causes of deforestation in India, Manab Chakraborty. Part 4 The tropical timber trade: the timber trade and tropical deforestation in Indonesia, Edward Barbier, et al; deforestation - the role of the international trade in tropical timber, Edward Barbier, et al; the tropical timber trade and sustainable development, Jeffrey Vincent.
