The material presents the problem of forests, deforestation becoming nowadays a real global problem of mankind. Many … deforestation on many functions performed by the forest are evaluated, such as: carbon dioxide absorption and oxygen release …

protection and amenity benefits. On the other hand, deforestation and suburban sprawl have substantially changed and fragmented … development and deforestation may reinforce the workings of emission reduction programs if co-benefits from land-based mitigation …

The paper estimates how much of the amazon deforestation is due to the consumption of goods and services from … households who live within the amazon region itself, comparing it to deforestation driven by consumers who live outside amazon … deforestation they drive. Results show that even though local population from the Amazon region represents only 13% of total …

paces of deforestation. Using both analytical and econometric frameworks, this paper evaluates the causes of deforestation … government expenditure on transport have played important roles as stimulators for deforestation as well as an inertial process … of deforestation has taken place. The article ends by suggesting some policies to restrain deforestation without reducing …

commodities are determinants that have been also pushing to more deforestation through the conversion of forest to new … deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. The analysis also focuses on the expansion of crop and cattle activities, and other … over GDP--goes up, the result is more deforestation. We also find that beef cattle and the production of soybeans …

Historically, development in Brazilian Amazon was promoted by permits of deforestation and little territory control or …, Brazilian's government has tighten deforestation control. Since 2004, political, institutional and market mechanisms have been … models in literature indicate for a spatial process of deforestation, all aspects of the spatial dynamic of deforestation has …