The expansion of a given land use may affect deforestation directly if forests are cleared to free land for this use …. Unlike direct land conversion, indirect land-use changes affecting deforestation are not immediately observable. They require … sugarcane expansion in Brazil’s state of São Paulo, on forest conversion decisions in the country’s Amazon region. Further, it …

In this article we study the long-run average rate of forest conversion in Brazil. Deforestation results from the … be used in our model. The object of our simulation is Brazil and 27 states. Our aim is to compute under several scenarios … benefits plays a relevant role in deterring deforestation. We find that these benefits, if growing at a sufficiently high rate …