Changes in land use, such as deforestation, expansion of sedentary agriculture and intensification of agricultural …

The Amazon is a vast region, but with many shortcomings. It presents one of the worst human development indicators in … Brazil. This article shows that while the Amazon does not have an adequate policy to make the region economically viable … the region's economic development and there is an urgent need to preserve nature and increase the Amazon population …

political discourses affect deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon region. Relying on novel data from Twitter, we present … the first causal evidence of political discourse on deforestation. Our analysis relies on municipal level monthly panel … periods from the analysis does not change the main result. Land use in the Brazilian Amazon is highly sensitive to whether …