A mix of public policy and market interventions in the mid-2000s led to historic reductions in deforestation in the …-rich countries. We construct a ten-year panel dataset for agriculture and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon (2004-2014), and use … two complementary difference-in-difference strategies to estimate the causal effect of one of Brazil's flagship anti-deforestation …

reduction may tend to increase deforestation …

We have constructed a comprehensive database of 117 spatially explicit econometric studies of deforestation published … in peer-reviewed academic journals from 1996-2013. We present a meta-analysis of what drives deforestation and what stops … deforestation. Population is consistently associated with greater deforestation, and poverty is consistently associated with lower …

management, and unsustainable forest exploitation in the form of illegal logging to explore deforestation and agricultural and … to increase deforestation by increasing both land conversion to agriculture and illegal logging. Contrary to current …, and thus deforestation. Confiscation risk decreases timber supply from unsustainable forestry practices while the affect …

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the detrimental impact of land tenure insecurity on deforestation in the … Brazilian Amazon. It is related to recent controversies about the detrimental impact of land laws on deforestation, which seem …. A simple model is developed where strategic interactions between farmers lead to excessive deforestation. One of the …

Deforestation arising from conversion of forest areas into agriculture is a serious problem in Malawi. Cultivation of … that cultivation of different crops has varying effects on deforestation. Cultivation of maize, primarily by the poor …, appears to be the principal cause of deforestation while tobacco and pulses stand at second and third positions, respectively …

forestland for the expansion of carbon sinks, focusing on how changes in forestland ownership affect deforestation and … urbanization and how subsequent changes in deforestation and urbanization affect GHG emissions, using South Korea as a case study …