Ecosystems and human health: The local benefits of forest cover in Indonesia |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Environmental and Rural Studies, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia;2. Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, United States;3. School of Economics and Center for the Study of Security and Drugs (CESED), Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia;1. Department of Resource Economics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA;2. Department of Economics, University of Alaska-Anchorage, USA;3. Institute for State Economy, Nankai University, China;4. School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University-Bloomington, USA;1. Virginia Institute of Marine Science and Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA;2. Clark University, 950 Main St., Worcester, MA, 01610, USA;3. Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William & Mary, Gloucester Point, VA 23062, USA;4. Monash University, Australia;5. University of Melbourne, Australia;1. Land Environment Economics & Policy Institute, Department of Economics, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4PU, UK;2. Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK;3. University of Siena, Department of Political Science and International, Italy;4. Department of Economics and Management, University of Trento, Via Vigilio Inama, 5, 38122, Trento, Italy;1. The World Bank, United States;2. Georgetown University, United States |
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| Abstract: | This paper documents the effect of primary forest cover loss on increased incidence of malaria. The evidence is consistent with an ecological response. I show that land use change, anti-malarial programs or migration cannot explain the effect of primary forest cover loss on increased malarial incidence. Falsification tests reveal that the effect is specific to malaria, with forest cover having no discernible effect on other diseases with a disease ecology different from that of malaria. Back-of-the-envelope calculations indicate that the morbidity-related malaria-reducing local benefits of primary forests are at least $1-$2 per hectare. |
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| Keywords: | Q53 O13 Q56 Q57 Q20 |
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