Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- Deforestation and development -- Structure of the book -- 2 Development of the Brazilian Amazon -- The geographic focus: the Brazilian Legal Amazonia --...

While theory strongly suggests that restricting development rights should reduce land prices, empirical evidence of this effect has been notoriously hard to obtain. Indeed, largely based on this difficulty a Congressional committee has recently recommended that tax benefits for such restrictions...