MOTEL, Pascale COMBES; COMBES, Jean-Louis; BONJEAN, … - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement … - 2010
The purpose of this paper is to highlight the detrimental impact of land tenure insecurity on deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. It is related to recent controversies about the detrimental impact of land laws on deforestation, which seem to legitimize land encroachments. The latter is mainly...