War and deforestation in Sierra Leone
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The impact of armed conflict on the environment is of major public policy importance. We use a geographically disaggregated dataset of civil war violence together with satellite imagery of land cover to test whether war facilitated or prevented forest loss in Sierra Leone. The conflict data set allows us to establish where rebel groups were stationed and where battles and attacks occurred. The satellite data enables to us to monitor the change in forest cover (total, primary, and secondary) in all of Sierra Leone's 151 chiefdoms, between 1990 (prior to the war) and 2000 (just prior to its end). The results suggest that conflict in Sierra Leone acted as a brake on local deforestation: conflict-ridden areas experienced significantly less forest loss relative to their more conflict-free counterparts.
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Armed conflict sometimes leads to a decline in deforestation.
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Armed conflict commonly leads to increases in general environmental stress.
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- Authors
- Burgess, R., Miguel, E., & Stanton, C.
- Affiliations
- London School of Economics and Political Science (GB)
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- Stanford University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Miguel, Edward
- Venue
- Environmental Research Letters
- Publisher
- IOP Publishing
- Published
- 2015-09-01
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 095014
- ISSN
- 1748-9326 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2177827930
- Cited by
- 62
- References
- 42
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 2
- FWCI
- 8.48
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Environmental Research Letters (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- London School of Economics and Political Science Theses Online (London School of Economics and Political Science) (acceptedVersion)
- London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science) (acceptedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Environmental and Biological Research in Conflict Zones
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political Conflict and Governance
- Keywords
- armed conflict, deforestation, forest loss, Sierra Leone civil war, rebel groups, land cover change, primary and secondary forests, chiefdoms
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