The forest conservation policy instrument REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) is … that it is possible to combine export tariffs with public investments such that deforestation decreases, while agricultural …

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 …

of deforestation. Interestingly, we show that uncertainty, even if it induces conversion postponement in the short …-run, increases the average rate of deforestation and reduces expected time for total conversion in the long run. Finally, we … illustrate our findings through some numerical simulations. -- Optimal Stopping ; Deforestation ; Payments for Environmental …

Fuelwood collection is often cited as the most important cause of deforestation in developing countries. Use of …

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 …