Warming from tropical deforestation reduces worker productivity in rural communities

It is expected that tropical deforestation and related increases in heat exposure have negative impacts on labour productivity, but the size of the effect is not well known. Here, the authors show that deforestation reduces productivity by 8.22% in rural Indonesia and causes behavioural adaptation r...

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Autores principales: Yuta J. Masuda, Teevrat Garg, Ike Anggraeni, Kristie Ebi, Jennifer Krenz, Edward T. Game, Nicholas H. Wolff, June T. Spector
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/967c67e252ef4bf0993c8f026cd1ea00
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Sumario:It is expected that tropical deforestation and related increases in heat exposure have negative impacts on labour productivity, but the size of the effect is not well known. Here, the authors show that deforestation reduces productivity by 8.22% in rural Indonesia and causes behavioural adaptation responses like more work breaks.