cattle raising activities in the transition towards a lowcarbon agriculture in Brazil. It is organized as follows. The next … section presents long run historical perspectives on the development of cattle raising in Brazil. The third section analyzes … the patterns of growth of cattle raising in Brazil based upon municipal panel data of Agricultural Census from 1975 to …

This paper investigates the apparent paradox of the mid 2000’s sharp reduction in the deforestation of the Brazilian … estimate the effects of well-known drivers in the deforestation process, such as cattle herd and soybean crops, as well as the … effect of the conservation policy. The results suggest that the policy not only had a direct effect of reducing deforestation …

The limited knowledge about the effect of deforestation on human health is an important gap for environmental and … health management in Brazil and worldwide. In order to assess its occurrence and magnitude, we performed a panel analysis …, linking data on deforestation and reportable diseases by municipality and year, covering 773 municipalities in the Amazon …

The extent of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon grew significantly in the last 20 years. Approximately 400,000 km2 … deforestation, though the contribution of logging increased significantly in the nineties. This paper uses panel data for eight …

alternative agricultural land uses. It is shown that, at the current level of deforestation, the potential benefits of … deforestation are higher than the expected costs. As the level of deforestation increases, however, the global costs of … deforestation will rise, and eventually pass the value of agricultural land. At that point, the international community will have to …

This paper develops a model of deforestation and economic development in the Amazon. It is based on the determinants of …. The trade-off between economic growth and deforestation is shown to be quite good for subsidized credit but very bad for …

This paper proposes an environmental DSGE model with deforestation of a tropical rain forest. The forest can be used to … the taxation of the deforestation activity. We calibrate the model for the Brazilian economy, and show that it predicts a … procyclical deforestation, and that a more stringent policy reduces the volatility of deforestation. Moreover, technological …