Environmental Ethics
PHIL 323 / INDS 323
The University of Arizona

World Forests

Research and text for this page was prepared by Kent Walker as a student project in Phil 323, Environmental Ethics.

Introduction
The purpose of this page is to reiterate some statistical data that shed light on the nightmarish trends of global deforestation.

The major sources used are the World Resources Institute and the World Development Report 1992, Development and the Environment, World Bank, Oxford University Press, Oxford,1992.

Overall Forest Change

Forest Categories

Causes of Deforestation

Effects of Deforestation

Solutions


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