Abstract
Tropical deforestation of natural forests was assessed by the FAO as 11 million ha/year in 1980 and as 12 million ha/year in 2000 – 2005. Deforestation has expanded in spite of the multitude of global, international, and national political efforts to decelerate it. Our fundamental question here is why? Why did Finland succeed in stopping deforestation over a century ago, and why is the same not possible in the contemporary tropical countries? In this book we have applied a novel approach in our analyses, which has brought some theory-based fresh findings. We do not compare Finland directly with the tropics but via our integrated theory of forest transition.
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Palo, M., Lehto, E. (2012). Rationale of the Book. In: Private or Socialistic Forestry?. World Forests, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3896-8_1
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