Bård Harstad
@bardharstad.bsky.social
Stanford economist:
Professor of Political Economy; Business & Sustainability.
GSB, Doerr, NBER, CEPR, UiO, TSE, 3ERCs.
Homepage: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/bard-harstad
Climate & environmental economics; international trade.
Professor of Political Economy; Business & Sustainability.
GSB, Doerr, NBER, CEPR, UiO, TSE, 3ERCs.
Homepage: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/bard-harstad
Climate & environmental economics; international trade.
The atlas can also be use to illustrate the distribution of benefits (and bargaining powers...) when countries negotiate more ambitious cuts at COP30.
September 16, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The atlas can also be use to illustrate the distribution of benefits (and bargaining powers...) when countries negotiate more ambitious cuts at COP30.
And Brazil has been criticized for investing in roads through the Amazon before: www.science.org/doi/full/10....
www.science.org
July 19, 2025 at 8:59 AM
And Brazil has been criticized for investing in roads through the Amazon before: www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Just as roads are main drivers of deforestation in other parts of the world: le.uwpress.org/content/77/2...
Predicting the Location of Deforestation: The Role of Roads and Protected Areas in North Thailand
Using plot level data, we estimate a bivariate probit model to explain land clearing and the siting of protected areas in North Thailand in 1986. The model suggests that protected areas (national park...
le.uwpress.org
July 19, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Just as roads are main drivers of deforestation in other parts of the world: le.uwpress.org/content/77/2...
Roads are main drivers of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon not only when they are built, but years later too:
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Road network and deforestation of indigenous lands in the Brazilian Amazon
This research evaluates the relationship between the official and unofficial road network and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon within and around …
www.sciencedirect.com
July 19, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Roads are main drivers of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon not only when they are built, but years later too:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Because an abundant body of research finds that new roads, as those being built to host COP30, causes more deforestation: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Predictors of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Aim and Location
We assessed the effects of biophysical and anthropogenic predictors on deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia. This region has the world's highest absolute rates of forest destruction .....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 19, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Because an abundant body of research finds that new roads, as those being built to host COP30, causes more deforestation: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Reposted by Bård Harstad
I’ll modestly suggest my own book ‘Resources Matter: ending poverty while protecting nature’ (OUP). The PDF is free to download (open access) 👇 global.oup.com/academic/pro...
global.oup.com
July 15, 2025 at 6:38 AM
I’ll modestly suggest my own book ‘Resources Matter: ending poverty while protecting nature’ (OUP). The PDF is free to download (open access) 👇 global.oup.com/academic/pro...