More cattle, less deforestation? Land use intensification in the Amazon is an unexpected phenomenon. Theories of hollow …. Yet between 1996 and 2006 productivity of cattle grew by an astounding 57.5% in the average Amazon municipality. Does … rising land productivity of cattle increase deforestation? I use secondary data and spatial econometrics to look for evidence …

forest cover change and alleviate poverty. We examine protected areas in the Peruvian Amazon using high-resolution satellite …

economic and environmental dimension. Concentrating on Peru’s largest hydrocarbon project, the Camisea Gas Project, which began …-sensed vegetation data suggests that the Camisea Gas Project did not have a significant effect on deforestation, suggesting that the …

wider economy. The extractive reserves in the Brazilian Amazon offer perhaps one of the most interesting cases for …

Deforestation in the North western part of Pakistan is a long standing problem. The Forestry Department, as formal … process has not resulted in less deforestation. From the policy perspective this has been leading to stated intentions to … statutory law. In this article we explore the mechanisms behind the deforestation and try to uncover mechanisms to reverse the …