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cou er described, because the effect of one variable is dependent upon the value of the other. As a result, high-income nations exhibit the opposite response to disappearing forest cover than low-income nations. In an analysis of 103 countries, I found that high-income 1997; Brook et al., 2003; Sodhi et al., 2004). Landuse change, of which deforestation is a major component, is global patterns of deforestation and how they might be reversed. The EKC theory states that in the initial stages of economic development, a nation draws heavily on envir-onmental capital like forests to spur economic growt