Cattle Ranching is the main causes of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon region. This paper analyses the proximate … causes of deforestation using linear regressions with panel data. The model evaluates the contribution of the main land uses … for deforestation from 2000 to 2006. Deforestation data from INPE-PRODES, number of heads of cattle, and area of temporary …

Many are the factors indicated by the pertinent literature concerning the causes of deforestation in Brazilian Legal … variables suggested as important that explain the deforestation of the Legal Amazon, in the period from 1997 to 2006. The … empirical evidence that there is a bidirectional causality between deforestation and the areas of permanent and temporary …

The deforestation of the Amazon forest is one of the most important environmental problems faced by the Brazilian … government. The economic literature points to numerous factors responsible for deforestation, and many of these are, directly or … can influence, or mitigate, Amazonian deforestation. The state of Pará is used as a case study, as it presents the highest …

Agricultural expansion is the main deforestation driver, while forest degradation is due to non-sustainable poaching … and harvesting of forest products. Policies to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) thus … discussed. Does reduced deforestation indirectly decrease or enhance forest degradation? How does better control on illegal …

links between the funding of this first phase and the quantity of avoided deforestation that will happen during the …