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How did law and market work together in colonial deforestation?

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Correct answer: Law gave control and the market created demand for timber and plantation crops

Correct answer: A. Law and market acted together, but in different ways. Colonial laws and forest departments claimed authority over land, restricted local use and made extraction easier to regulate. At the same time, markets created demand for timber, railway sleepers, shipbuilding material and plantation crops. Once the state controlled forests, commercial interests could obtain selected products or convert land for profitable uses more easily. A is correct because it identifies both the legal mechanism of control and the economic pressure of demand. B is wrong because colonial trade and markets expanded rather than disappeared. C is wrong because market demand often encouraged cutting and conversion, not the saving of every forest. D is wrong because both forces strongly shaped forest use. Memory cue: law opened the door to control; market pushed profitable extraction through it.

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Law And MarketCommercial ForestryColonial EconomyDeforestationWhy Deforestation?Why DeforestationForest Society And ColonialismHistory

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