Araujo, Claudio; Bonjean, Catherine Araujo; Combes, … - In: Ecological Economics 68 (2009) 8-9, pp. 2461-2468
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...