Deforestation is a leading cause of biodiversity loss and an important source of global carbon emissions. This means … that there are important synergies between climate policy and conservation policy. The highest rates of deforestation occur … in tropical countries, where much of the land at the forest frontier is managed informally by smallholders and where …

specifically for the buffer zones of protected areas in the Peruvian Amazon, sites where REDD+ has the potential to generate …-Chemillen (YChNP) in central Peru and Manu (MNP) in the south-east. Data were collected through smallholder household surveys (n = 200 … smallholders operate individually, such as YChNP, international NGOs may be best placed to gain local trust and thereby raise …

plantations, but smallholders are also involved significantly. We find that, in spite of significant oil palm expansion, rubber … major driver of deforestation. Much of the forest in Jambi was cleared more than 20 years ago, and rubber was an established … activities, so indirect effects on deforestation are likely. The government’s transmigration program of the 1980s and 1990s was …

contribution of deforestation to the growth of the Amazon would allow assessing the relative cost of public policies, estimating … deforestation between 2006 and 2011 for the Amazon economic growth of 0.3% on the total GDP. This result is reinforced by the …This paper analyzes the contribution of the forest cleared for the Amazon economy between 2006 and 2011, as well as the …

Protected areas are increasingly used as a tool to fight against deforestation. This paper presents new evidence on the … Brazilian Legal Amazon over the 2001-2011 period. We also highlight the interdependence between these two decisions. We proceed … in two steps. First, we assumed that protected areas are created to stop the negative effects of deforestation on …

Brazil has long ago removed most of the perverse government incentives that stimulated massive deforestation in the … Amazon in the 1970s and 1980s, but the highly controversial policy concerning road building still remains. While data is now … abundantly available due to the constant satellite surveillance of the Amazon, the analytical methods typically used to analyze …

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 …