This paper investigates the apparent paradox of the mid 2000’s sharp reduction in the deforestation of the Brazilian … estimate the effects of well-known drivers in the deforestation process, such as cattle herd and soybean crops, as well as the … effect of the conservation policy. The results suggest that the policy not only had a direct effect of reducing deforestation …

The Amazon region is the focus of intense conflict between conservationists concerned with deforestation and advocates … others have fought fiercely to stop deforestation in the region. It documents how the history of frontier expansion and …

deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. We estimate yearly panel data models (from 2002 to 2009) for 457 municipalities in the region …. The results show that recent deforestation is related to economic incentives, and especially to fluctuations in product … police (IBAMA) were effective in reducing deforestation rates. -- Causes of deforestation ; Amazon ; Brazil …

deforestation. We focus on the Amazon, the world's most extensive rainforest, where Brazil's federal government issued a ‘Priority …, we first estimate the causal impact of the Priority List on deforestation using ‘changes-in-changes' (Athey and Imbens …, 2006), a flexible treatment effects estimation method, finding that it reduced deforestation by 40 percent and cut …