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Jonah Busch, Ph.D.

Jonah Busch is an environmental economist who studies climate change and tropical deforestation. He is the author of more than forty scientific papers and the co-author of the book Why Forests? Why Now? The Science, Economics, and Politics of Tropical Forests and Climate Change. 

RECENT BLOGS AND OP-EDS

Green Growth

(jonahbusch.com)

Imported Deforestation

(jonahbusch.com)

What drives deforestation

(jonahbusch.com)

Behind the Paper: EFT

(Springer Nature Sustainability Community)

Cost-effectiveness of reforestation

(Springer Nature Research Communities)

Mangrove Restoration

(jonahbusch.com)

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Deforestation and Malaria

(World Development, 2020)

Deforestation and Malaria

(World Development, 2020)

Low-Cost Reforestation

(Nature Climate Change, 2019)

Securing Stable Forests

(Climate Policy, 2019)

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Deforestation and Malaria

(World Development, 2020)

Deforestation and Malaria

(World Development, 2020)

Low-Cost Reforestation

(Nature Climate Change, 2019)

Securing Stable Forests

(Climate Policy, 2019)

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Mangrove Restoration Cost

(One Earth, 2025)

Cost-effectiveness of Reforestation

(Nature Climate Change, 2024)

Sustainable Oil Palm Certification

(Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2024)

Reforestation in China

(Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2023)

What Drives Deforestation?

(Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2023)

Pandemic Prevention

(Science Advances, 2022)

© 2025 by Jonah Busch, Ph.D.

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