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Figure 18

Discount Rate. Countries with a low discount rate are marked in dark green, moderate countries in yellow and countries

with a high rate in red.

pxi: Price index [1]r: Discount rate [e.g. 0.05]Ri: Rotation interval length [years]

SAgSi: Standardized agricultural suitability [1-10]SFs: Standardized not forest area share [1-10]

Vi: Harvest wood volume [m3]

xi: Theoretical decrease of the forest share if Fsi > 0 ∧ AgSi> 0

Competing interests

The author(s) declare that they have no competing inter-ests.

Authors' contributions

SPd: Standardized population density [1-10]

Georg Kindermann has developed the deforestation ratemodel, implemented the whole model, collected somedata sources and organized them to be used for the imple-

Figure 19

Effectiveness (Corruption). Countries with high values of corruption are marked in red, moderate countries in yellow and

low values in green.