Brazil. This article shows that while the Amazon does not have an adequate policy to make the region economically viable …The Amazon is a vast region, but with many shortcomings. It presents one of the worst human development indicators in … 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 …

This paper develops a theoretical as well as an empirical model of deforestation and economic development in a tropical … forest economy. The empirical model is estimated using panel data for 316 municipalities in the Brazilian Amazon during the … period 1970-1985. The effects of controversial Brazilian policies, such as road building through the Amazon and subsidized …