This paper explores China’s role in deforestation in Latin America. Brazil’s Amazon region contains vast natural … resources. The paper examines how China influences deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia in a variety of ways, including through … rise in exports of soy and beef products to China are two of the major drivers of Amazonian deforestation in Brazil. The …

deforestation processes. A recurrent discussion involves what to do to reduce the deforestation process. A compensation to no-deforestation …

equilibrium model of the world economy. The main results show that deforestation emissions in Brazil can be reduced at very low …, including actions to cut emissions from deforestation and agricultural production. We employ a dynamic-recursive general … carbon taxes on agricultural production indirectly reduce deforestation rates. However, directly cutting emissions from …

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 …