Protected areas are increasingly used as a tool to fight against deforestation. This paper presents new evidence on the … in two steps. First, we assumed that protected areas are created to stop the negative effects of deforestation on … creation of protected areas. Our results show (i) that deforestation activities of neighboring municipalities are complements …

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the detrimental impact of land tenure insecurity on deforestation in the … Brazilian Amazon. It is related to recent controversies about the detrimental impact of land laws on deforestation, which seem …. A simple model is developed where strategic interactions between farmers lead to excessive deforestation. One of the …

This paper examines the effects of land tenure insecurity originating from land reforms on deforestation in the … and the strategic interactions between landowners and squatters lead to an over deforestation. The main theoretical … restriction is a positive impact of squatters on deforestation. It is successfully tested on a panel data set covering the …

financing, namely seigniorage and deforestation revenues. First, we develop a theoretical model emphasizing a substitution … effect between seigniorage and deforestation revenues. Second, a panel-data econometric analysis over the 1990-2010 period … confirms our findings. Consequently, a tighter monetary policy hastens deforestation. Third, we extend the theoretical model …

, using data from Brazil. Our preliminary results confirm the hypothesis that deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is …This paper investigates the mechanisms determining spatial interactions in deforestation, and its transmission channels … characterized by complementarity, meaning that deforestation in a particular municipality tends to increase deforestation in its …

deforestation rates. Consequently, there exists a substitution effect between deforestation rates and seigniorage. Empirical …

Deforestation is a phenomenon that has largely been concentrated in the developing world. We construct a theoretical … model of deforestation that focuses on the factors affecting the incentives to transform forested land into agricultural … in the relative price of timber decrease deforestation; (ii) depreciations in the real exchange rate increase …

This paper focuses on the impact of property rights insecurity on deforestation in the Brazilian Legal Amazon …. Deforestation is considered as a risk management strategy: property rights insecurity reduces the present value of forests and … fosters forest conversion into agricultural and pasture lands. Moreover, deforestation is the consequence of strategic …

depreciation reduces deforestation in relatively developed countries (with GDP per capita greater than $900) whereas it has the …

This paper investigates whether inherited legacies such as legal origin allow of explaining deforestation in 110 … developed and developing countries. The hypothesis is that differences in deforestation between countries can be attributed to …