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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 …
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The negative impacts of climate change have made poverty and deforestation topics of heightened interest within global … community discussions in recent years. Our study contributes to the debate over the links between poverty and deforestation by … there is a non-linear relationship between SWB, as well as other poverty proxies, and deforestation. We found that objective …
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possible determinants of deforestation in an economic environment characterised by missing or thin markets. Hypotheses from the … to identify the effect of household level explanatory variables on the probability of deforestation. This approach allows … of agricultural support, model results suggest that the deforestation process is characterised by non-linear duration …
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This paper explores deforestation and asset accumulation among small scale farmers in tropical forests. In a two … accumulation options may or may not change the impacts of policy measures on deforestation, depending on labor market conditions …
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resource and the strategic interactions between landowners and squatters lead to an over deforestation. The main theoretical … implication is a positive impact of squatters on deforestation. It is successfully tested on a panel data set covering the … municipalities of the Legal Amazonia controlling for the endogeneity of squatters in a deforestation equation. The result questions …
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.---------------------------------------------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. …
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to the globally efficient policy to avoid deforestation. …
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This paper reviews perceived notions of the relationships between catchment land use and hydrology and explores whether much of the widely disseminated folklore, so often inextricably linked with issues of land use, is based on myth or reality. Gaps in our knowledge of the underlying processes...
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Policymakers in the Brazilian Amazon face the challenge of meeting environmental and developmental goals as cities and towns within these tropical forests continue to face migration pressure. Alternative government planning strategies have been implemented to address forest clearing in...
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In developing countries across the globe the impact of livestock on deforestation levels has been profound. This paper … inquiries raised in the literature are addressed, including the determinants of the co-evolution of deforestation and cattle …
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