This paper updates Working Paper 294. Forest Conservation Performance Rating (fCPR) is a system of color-coded ratings for tropical forest conservation performance that can be implemented for local areas, countries, regions, and the entire pan-tropics.
This paper briefly summarizes how the FORMA tool and the fCPR rating system could provide provide a performance scorecard and an interim performance-based payments scheme for safeguarding forests.
This data set includes the data and programs needed to replicate the analysis in Forest Clearing in the Pantropics: December 2005–August 2011 by David Wheeler, Robin Kraft, and Dan Hammer.
This data set includes the data and programs needed to replicate the analysis in Working Paper 280, Economic Dynamics and Forest Clearing: A Spatial Econometric Analysis for Indonesia by David Wheeler, Dan Hammer, Robin Kraft, Susmita Dasgupta, and Brian Blankespoor.
This data set includes the data and programs needed to replicate the analysis in Working Paper 282, From REDD to Green: A Global Incentive System to Stop Tropical Forest Clearing by David Wheeler, Dan Hammer, and Robin Kraft.
This report summarizes recent trends in large-scale tropical forest clearing identified by FORMA (Forest Monitoring for Action). FORMA produces indicators that track monthly changes in the number of 1-sq.-km. tropical forest parcels that have experienced clearing with high probability. This report and the accompanying spreadsheet databases provide monthly estimates for 27 countries, 280 primary administrative units, and 2,907 secondary administrative units.
This paper develops and illustrates a prototype incentive system for promoting rapid reduction of forest clearing in tropical countries.
David Wheeler and co-authors use detailed monthly data from FORMA (Forest Monitoring for Action) to determine the factors that contribute to deforestation in Indonesia. Their results highlight the importance of incorporating economic dynamics into financial compensation arrangements for forest conservation while casting doubt on the efficacy of tradition protection arrangements.