The Dynamics of Deforestation and Economic Growth in the Brazilian Amazon.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- Deforestation and development -- Structure of the book -- 2 Development of the Brazilian Amazon -- The geographic focus: the Brazilian Legal Amazonia -- Historical perspectives -- "Operation Amazonia" and SUDAM -- The rise of environmental concern -- Improvements in monitoring capacity and enforcement -- The distributional impact of Amazon development -- Avancça Brasil -- Conclusions -- 3 The municipal database -- Deforestation: concepts and measures -- Cleared land -- Natural vegetation -- Comparing deforestation estimates based on land surveys and satellite data -- The Agricultural Censuses -- Socio-economic dimensions -- Demographic variables -- GDP -- Cattle herd -- Land prices -- Road building -- Subsidized credit -- Logging -- Geo-ecological dimensions -- Soil quality, rainfall, and temperature -- Conservation Units and Indigenous Reserves -- Neighbor/spatial variables -- 4 The sources and agents of deforestation -- Cattle ranching -- Government subsidies -- Land speculation -- Other reasons for the expansion of cattle -- Small- and large-scale agriculture -- Logging -- Mining -- Large-scale mining -- Placer mining -- Hydroelectric dams -- Property rights -- Secondary forest growth -- 5 Alternatives to deforestation: extractivism -- The data -- Mapping extractive value densities -- Explaining spatial differences in extraction values -- Conclusions and discussion -- 6 Modeling deforestation and development in the Brazilian Amazon -- Previous studies -- Model specification -- Modified "general-to-simple" modeling: random reduction -- Model specification and variables -- Timeframe of the analysis -- Estimation results -- Growth of cleared land -- Rural GDP growth -- Urban GDP growth.