This paper focuses on the impact of property rights insecurity on deforestation in the Brazilian Legal Amazon …. Deforestation is considered as a risk management strategy: property rights insecurity reduces the present value of forests and … fosters forest conversion into agricultural and pasture lands. Moreover, deforestation is the consequence of strategic …

deforestation processes. A recurrent discussion involves what to do to reduce the deforestation process. A compensation to no-deforestation …

technical efficiency and these estimates are put into a land-use model to assess the impact of productivity on deforestation … efficient farms use more land for their agricultural activities and so have a positive effect on deforestation. However, the … majority of farms in the BLA are on the ascendant slope, so that efficiency implies more deforestation in the BLA. The poor …