The Amazon is an immense region and with several demands, it has one of the worst indicators of human development. So …, this article argues that as long as the Amazon does not have a thriving economy in which it is more profitable to keep the … nature and increase the quality of life of the Amazon population. The text discusses the challenges of investing in really …

deforestation in the Amazon. A decade after the initiative was launched, however, little is known about its effects on deforestation …

The objective of this study is to identify the determinants of NTFPs’ supply and demand in the Amazon region. The …

Amazon has been making significant investments to expand its fulfillment network that receives merchandise from vendors … focused on this growing distribution network. We show a significant positive effect of opening Amazon's distribution … facilities on counties' economic outcomes. After Amazon's entry, employment to population ratio increased by 0.7-1.0% points …

This research revealed the main socio-environmental pressures on indigenous lands located in the Amazon Biome. To … total number of indigenous lands in the Amazon Biome. However, the majority showed a pressure classified as 'Low'. Therefore … resources in the Amazon …

map a large area of 13,440 km 2 located in a remote region under the Amazon Rainforest. The objectives of this study were …

In the Brazilian Southwestern Amazon, food security agriculture predominates in smallholder farms where cassava …

This paper develops a dynamic spatial equlibrium model of Amazon deforestation, accounting for trade and labor markets … deforestation; 2) agricultural productivity gains within the Amazon region likely increase deforestation (but reduce deforestation … in the rest of the world) 3) manufacturing productivity in urban centers in the Amazon region decreases deforestation …

use patterns in Brazil's Legal Amazon. It demonstrates that productivity gains in the Legal Amazon's agriculture sector … forest conversion in the Legal Amazon. The paper points to the economic forces that forest protection efforts need to counter …