The Unintended Impact of Colombia’s Covid-19 Lockdown on Forest Fires
dc.contributor.author | Amador-Jiménez, M | |
dc.contributor.author | Millner, N | |
dc.contributor.author | Palmer, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Pennington, RT | |
dc.contributor.author | Sileci, L | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-18T09:52:08Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-08-10 | |
dc.description.abstract | The covid-19 pandemic led to rapid and large-scale government intervention in economies and societies. A common policy response to covid-19 outbreaks has been the lockdown or quarantine. Designed to slow the spread of the disease, lockdowns have unintended consequences for the environment. This article examines the impact of Colombia’s lockdown on forest fires, motivated by satellite data showing a particularly large upsurge of fires at around the time of lockdown implementation. We find that Colombia’s lockdown is associated with an increase in forest fires compared to three different counterfactuals, constructed to simulate the expected number of fires in the absence of the lockdown. To varying degrees across Colombia’s regions, the presence of armed groups is correlated with this fire upsurge. Mechanisms through which the lockdown might influence fire rates are discussed, including the mobilisation of armed groups and the reduction in the monitoring capacity of state and conservation organisations during the covid-19 outbreak. Given the fast-developing situation in Colombia, we conclude with some ideas for further research. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 10 August 2020 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s10640-020-00501-5 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | NE/R017980/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/122513 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Springer / European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2020. Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. | en_GB |
dc.subject | Armed groups | en_GB |
dc.subject | Covid-19 | en_GB |
dc.subject | Colombia | en_GB |
dc.subject | Deforestation | en_GB |
dc.subject | Forest fires | en_GB |
dc.subject | Lockdown | en_GB |
dc.title | The Unintended Impact of Colombia’s Covid-19 Lockdown on Forest Fires | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2020-08-18T09:52:08Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0924-6460 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Springer via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.description | Data availability: Data used in the econometric analysis are available from the authors on request. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Environmental and Resource Economics | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2020-07-09 | |
exeter.funder | ::Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) | en_GB |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2020-07-09 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2020-08-18T09:50:31Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2020-08-18T09:52:12Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
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