Are Brazil's Deforesters Avoiding Detection?
Conserv Lett
; 10(4): 470-476, 2017.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-29270225
ABSTRACT
Rates of deforestation reported by Brazil's official deforestation monitoring system have declined dramatically in the Brazilian Amazon. Much of Brazil's success in its fight against deforestation has been credited to a series of policy changes put into place between 2004 and 2008. In this research, we posit that one of these policies, the decision to use the country's official system for monitoring forest loss in the Amazon as a policing tool, has incentivized landowners to deforest in ways and places that evade Brazil's official monitoring and enforcement system. As a consequence, we a) show or b) provide several pieces of suggestive evidence that recent successes in protecting monitored forests in the Brazilian Amazon may be doing less to protect the region's forests than previously assumed.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Type of study:
Diagnostic_studies
Country/Region as subject:
America do sul
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Brasil
Language:
En
Journal:
Conserv Lett
Year:
2017
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
United States