effects of a policy of controlling deforestation between 2012 and 2020. For this, we used the interregional computable general … contribution of deforestation to the growth of the Amazon would allow assessing the relative cost of public policies, estimating … the implicit value of deforestation in economic dynamics. The simulation results indicate a positive contribution of …

Protected areas are increasingly used as a tool to fight against deforestation. This paper presents new evidence on the … in two steps. First, we assumed that protected areas are created to stop the negative effects of deforestation on … creation of protected areas. Our results show (i) that deforestation activities of neighboring municipalities are complements …

Brazil has long ago removed most of the perverse government incentives that stimulated massive deforestation in the … municipality-level regression analysis, and shows what would be needed to construct an ideal model of deforestation processes. It …

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 …

.---------------------------------------------The expansion of agricultural and cattle production has been considered the main cause of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. The … decision taking about land use system is a decisive element for levels of deforestation and factors related to household … forest portion followed by larger levels of deforestation. …

of the agricultural frontier. This paper aims to help this debate by identifying relationship between deforestation and … matrix between deforestation and variables which indicate land use such as planted area with the most important crops, cattle … herd, but there is no correlation between accumulated deforestation and herd evolution in five years. Cattle ranching is …

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 …