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Smallholder land clearing and the Forest Code in the Brazilian Amazon

Schons, Stella Z.; Lima, Eirivelton; Amacher, Gregory S.; … - In: Environment and development economics 24 (2019) 2, pp. 157-179

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Deforestation, production intensity and land use under insecure property rights

Amacher, Gregory S.; Koskela, Erkki; Ollikainen, Markku - 2004

management, and unsustainable forest exploitation in the form of illegal logging to explore deforestation and agricultural and … to increase deforestation by increasing both land conversion to agriculture and illegal logging. Contrary to current …, and thus deforestation. Confiscation risk decreases timber supply from unsustainable forestry practices while the affect …

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The dynamics of deforestation and reforestation in a developing economy

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Corruption and forest concessions

Amacher, Gregory S.; Ollikainen, Markku; Koskela, Erkki - In: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 63 (2012) 1, pp. 92-104

We examine how corruption impacts a central government's application of concession policy instruments consisting of royalty rates, concession size, environmentally sensitive logging levels, and enforcement. Harvesters have incentives to illegally log by taking more volume than is allowed, high...

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