Deforestation in developing and middle income countries is an urgent global problem, affecting climate change, soil … frequently dominated by widely held beliefs concerning the extent of deforestation (that it is large and growing over time), and … its impacts on local livelihoods (that these are adverse and large). Views concerning determinants of deforestation …

A longitudinal household survey from World Bank Living Standards Measurement Survey (LSMS) was used for the study. A …

Deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia rises mainly from planning and development policies. These policies created great … this context, development opposes environment. This paper reports on this deforestation and its evolution in Brazilian … Amazonia. It shows that development and planning policy which have generated this deforestation during recent decades have been …