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| Author | : Dennis J. Mahar |
| Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
| Total Pages | : 72 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Lykke E. Andersen |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2002-12-12 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780521811972 |
A multi-disciplinary team of authors analyze the economics of Brazilian deforestation using a large data set of ecological and economic variables. They survey the most up to date work in this field and present their own dynamic and spatial econometric analysis based on municipality level panel data spanning the entire Brazilian Amazon from 1970 to 1996. By observing the dynamics of land use change over such a long period the team is able to provide quantitative estimates of the long-run economic costs and benefits of both land clearing and government policies such as road building. The authors find that some government policies, such as road paving in already highly settled areas, are beneficial both for economic development and for the preservation of forest, while other policies, such as the construction of unpaved roads through virgin areas, stimulate wasteful land uses to the detriment of both economic growth and forest cover.
| Author | : Sérgio Margulis |
| Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
| Total Pages | : 170 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 9780821356913 |
Annotation This title studies the role of cattle ranching its dynamic and profitability in the expansion of deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia. It provides a social evaluation of deforestation in this region and presents and compares a number of different scenarios and proposed recommendations.
| Author | : Andrea Cattaneo |
| Publisher | : Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
| Total Pages | : 166 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0896291308 |
Since the 1970s, federal policies promoting migration and encouraging agricultural development of large farms, logging, and ranching have led to the deforestation of vast areas of the Amazon rainforest.Though these policies have largely been replaced, deforestation continues. What effects do current macroeconomic and regional policies and events have on deforestation and on the well-being of settlers on the agricultural frontier? This report identifies the links between the agriculture and logging sectors in the Amazon, economic growth, poverty alleviation, and natural resource degradation in the region and in Brazil as a whole.It considers the effects of currency devaluation, building roads and other infrastructure in the Amazon, property rights, adoption of technological change, and fiscal incentives and disincentives to deforest.The results are sometimes counterintuitive, but shed new light on why slowing deforestation is so difficult and on the trade-offs between environmental and economic goals.
| Author | : Dennis J. Mahar |
| Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
| Total Pages | : 72 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Alexander S. P. Pfaff |
| Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
| Total Pages | : 56 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Carreteras - Brasil |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 2000-01-01 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 9780821347614 |
Scope of the study; Organization of the report; The forests and forest sector in Brazil; How much forest is there?; The Amazon; The Atlantic forest; Changes in forest cover; The economic importance of Brazil's forests; Size of the forest sector; International trade; Pressures on the forests; Deforestation and government policies; Forest regulation; Weak institutional environment and enforcement; Logging; Agricultural expansion; Smallholder agriculture in the western Amazon; Agriculture expansion in Parana; Development; Forest fires; Agricultural credit; Protecting Brazil's forests: the role of parks and plantations; Protected areas; Plantation forestry; Important issues in the forest sector; Costs and benefits of managed forests in Brazil; Conservation solutions; Certification; Indigenous communities; Extraction of non-timber forest products; Forest research and forest technology; The changing role of the public sector; The influence of nongovernmental organizations; The World Bank and Brazil; Overview; The Bank program in Brazil; Country assistance strategies; New environmental strategies; Economic and sector work since 1991; World Bank lending portfolio; Evaluation of the bank program in Brazil; Minas Gerais forestry development; Northwest region integration program (POLONOROESTE); Rondonia and Mato Grosso natural resource management projects; Emergency fire prevention; Land management projects; Agriculture and forestry technology development; Global environment facility; Pilot program to conserve the Amazon rain forest (PPG-7); Projects with possible impacts on forests; Transportation projects and the forests of Brazil; Land reform projects; Supplemental tables; The 1991 forest strategy; Economic background; World Bank inspection panel findings for the PLANFLORO Project; OED - and QAG - Evaluated projects; Summary of november 1999 Brasilia Workshop and stakeholder comments; Summary of march 2000 Brasilia Workshop.
| Author | : Sérgio Margulis |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 107 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Deforestation |
| ISBN | : |
"This report suggests that, in contrast to the 1970s and 1980s when occupation of Brazilian Amazonia was largely induced by government policies and subsidies, recent deforestation in significant parts of the region is basically caused by medium- and large-scale cattle ranching. Following a private rationale, the dynamics of the occupation process gradually became autonomous. Among the causes of the transformation are technological and managerial changes and the adaptation of cattle ranching to the geo-ecological conditions of eastern Amazonia which allowed for productivity gains and cost reductions. The fact that cattle ranching is viable from the private perspective does not mean that the activity is socially desirable nor environmentally sustainable. Private gains need to be contrasted with the environmental (social) costs associated with cattle ranching and deforestation. It also is legitimate to argue that the private benefits from large-scale cattle ranching are largely exclusive, having contributed little to alleviate social and economic inequalities. However, decreases in the price of beef in national markets and increases in exports caused by the expansion of cattle ranching in Eastern Amazonia may imply social benefits that go beyond sectoral and regional boundaries." --Résumé de l'éditeur.
| Author | : Susanna B. Hecht |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 98 |
| Release | : 1987 |
| Genre | : Amazon River Region |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Luiz C. Barbosa |
| Publisher | : University Press of America |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780761815228 |
Barbosa (sociology, San Francisco State University) provides a global, world-systemic analysis of the problem of deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. He shows how changes in global ecopolitics demanding sustainable development, coupled with the onset of democracy in Brazil, substantially altered the battle over the future of Amazonia. He describes deforestation in the region in the context of an expanding frontier of global capitalism, and compares Amazon experiences with those of Costa Rica, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
