the environmental relevance of each sector in the economies of the Amazon region and the rest of Brazil. This study … last decades, the deforestation was linked mainly to economic factors than to policies conducted by the government. The … Brazil, but also by the developed nations, as the burden of the reduction in the greenhouse gases emission in the Brazilian …

Agroecological Zoning (ZAE) developed for palm oil in Brazil and degraded land data. The analysis identifies some of the challenges …

with social protection, which is also a result of the democratic regime. Social protection (which in rural Brazil is very … justice based upon a model of agrarian reform that inevitably leads to deforestation. …

This paper explores China’s role in deforestation in Latin America. Brazil’s Amazon region contains vast natural … rise in exports of soy and beef products to China are two of the major drivers of Amazonian deforestation in Brazil. The … domestic supplies of these resources mean that China has become Brazil’s largest trading partner, primarily for natural …

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 …