caa a22 4500 445854855 CHVBK 20180317145425.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10640-010-9397-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10640-010-9397-y Does Democracy Lead to a Better Environment? Deforestation and the Democratic Transition Peak [Elektronische Daten] [Meilanie Buitenzorgy, Arthur P. J. Mol] The relationship between democracy and environment is subject to controversy. Some scientists find that democracy has a positive impact in reducing environmental disruption. Other scholars claim that democracy tends to accelerate environmental degradation. By using deforestation rates as a proxy for environmental disruption, we suggest that both sides might be right. Our quantitative analysis has three important outcomes. First, there is evidence of an inverted U-shaped relationship between deforestation and democracy. Second, countries in democratic transition experience the highest deforestation rates, compared to non-democracies and mature democracies. Third, in explaining deforestation rates democracy has larger explanatory power than income. This last result implies that in reducing deforestation rates the emphasis should not only be on economic development but even more on democratization. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2010 Deforestation nationallicence Democracy nationallicence Economic development nationallicence Environmental degradation nationallicence Environmental kuznets curve nationallicence Political development nationallicence Buitenzorgy Meilanie Department of Resources and Environmental Economics, Faculty of Economics and Management, Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), 16680, Bogor, Indonesia aut P. J. Mol Arthur Environmental Policy Group, Department of Social Sciences, Wageningen University, 6706 KN, Wageningen, The Netherlands aut Environmental and Resource Economics Springer Netherlands 48/1(2011-01-01), 59-70 0924-6460 48:1<59 2011 48 10640 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-010-9397-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-010-9397-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Buitenzorgy Meilanie Department of Resources and Environmental Economics, Faculty of Economics and Management, Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), 16680, Bogor, Indonesia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- P. J. Mol Arthur Environmental Policy Group, Department of Social Sciences, Wageningen University, 6706 KN, Wageningen, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental and Resource Economics Springer Netherlands 48/1(2011-01-01), 59-70 0924-6460 48:1<59 2011 48 10640 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer