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 …

More cattle, less deforestation? Land use intensification in the Amazon is an unexpected phenomenon. Theories of hollow … rising land productivity of cattle increase deforestation? I use secondary data and spatial econometrics to look for evidence … of a positive relation between cattle intensification and deforestation (‘rebound effect’). The reduced-form model I …

In this paper we aim at theoretically grounding the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation … incomplete information about reference levels of deforestation as well as exogenous implementation and transaction costs, we … compare two types of contracts: a deforestation performance-based contract and a conditional avoided deforestation …