caa a22 4500 44585524X CHVBK 20180317145426.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10640-011-9462-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10640-011-9462-1 Do Trees Grow with the Economy? A Spatial Analysis of the Determinants of Forest Cover Change in Sichuan, China [Elektronische Daten] [Huixia Zhao, Emi Uchida, Xiangzheng Deng, Scott Rozelle] This paper aims to identify the relationship between economic growth and forest cover change in Sichuan, China. Using a set of panel land use data based on Landsat TM/ETM digital images, we show that during the late 1980s and 1990s, Sichuan's forest cover initially decreased and then rose. We also note that the rising and falling trends occurred at the same time that Sichuan's economy was going through a period of rapid and sustained growth. We use multivariate analysis to identify the determinants of forest cover change. In addition to using a first-differenced estimator, we also utilize spatial error and spatial lag models to obtain consistent and efficient estimates of the determinants of forest cover. Our analysis demonstrates the importance of economic growth on the forest cover change; the results show that there is a U-shaped relationship between forest cover and GDP per capita. However, despite the nature of the empirical relationship between forest cover and income, the high turning point of the U-shaped relationship suggests that there is no evidence for the existence of the Environmental Kuznets Curve for forests in Sichuan Province. Hence, policy interventions may be necessary to stop the decrease of forests. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011 China nationallicence Economic growth nationallicence Environmental Kuznets Curve nationallicence Forest resources nationallicence Remote sensing nationallicence Spatial econometrics nationallicence Zhao Huixia Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, University of Rhode Island, 1 Greenhouse Road, 02881, Kingston, RI, USA aut Uchida Emi Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, University of Rhode Island, 1 Greenhouse Road, 02881, Kingston, RI, USA aut Deng Xiangzheng Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China aut Rozelle Scott Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA aut Environmental and Resource Economics Springer Netherlands 50/1(2011-09-01), 61-82 0924-6460 50:1<61 2011 50 10640 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-011-9462-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-011-9462-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Zhao Huixia Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, University of Rhode Island, 1 Greenhouse Road, 02881, Kingston, RI, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Uchida Emi Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, University of Rhode Island, 1 Greenhouse Road, 02881, Kingston, RI, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Deng Xiangzheng Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rozelle Scott Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental and Resource Economics Springer Netherlands 50/1(2011-09-01), 61-82 0924-6460 50:1<61 2011 50 10640 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer