Australian Agency for International Development, Japan International Cooperation Agency, and the World Bank confirmed their …

resource and the strategic interactions between landowners and squatters lead to an over deforestation. The main theoretical … implication is a positive impact of squatters on deforestation. It is successfully tested on a panel data set covering the … municipalities of the Legal Amazonia controlling for the endogeneity of squatters in a deforestation equation. The result questions …

.---------------------------------------------The expansion of agricultural and cattle production has been considered the main cause of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. The … decision taking about land use system is a decisive element for levels of deforestation and factors related to household … forest portion followed by larger levels of deforestation. …

of the agricultural frontier. This paper aims to help this debate by identifying relationship between deforestation and … matrix between deforestation and variables which indicate land use such as planted area with the most important crops, cattle … herd, but there is no correlation between accumulated deforestation and herd evolution in five years. Cattle ranching is …

presented in this work represents itself as part of a study that attempts to understand the deforestation of Amazonia Legal … deforestation during the process of economic development of respective states of the region. This development is based, above all … growth is strongly related to a large portion of the increase in the rate of deforestation in the Amazon region observed …

empirically, environmental Kuznets applied to the relationship between the rate of deforestation in per capita income in the … states of Amazonia Legal, besides analyzing the behavior of the rate of deforestation and population dynamics in the period … deforestation is the variable explained, and the per capita income, the population density and the year are the explanatory. In the …