Slash and Burn and Fires in Indonesia: A comment

Tacconi, Luca; Vayda, Andrew P.

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Slash and Burn and Fires in Indonesia: A comment

Date

2006

Authors

Tacconi, Luca

Vayda, Andrew P.

Publisher

Elsevier

Abstract

A paper published in Ecological Economics [Varma, A. 2003. The economics of slash and burn: a case study of the 1997-1998 Indonesian forest fires. Ecological Economics 46,159-171] claims to show that slash and burn agriculture is socially inefficient and