Land occupations and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Political Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, UCB 333, Boulder, CO 80309, USA;2. Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science and the Environmental Studies Program, University of Kansas, 1475 Jayhawk Blvd., 223, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA;3. The Climate Reality Project, Boulder, CO, USA;1. Center for Development Research, University of Bonn, Walter-Flex-Str. 3, 53113 Bonn, Germany;2. Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Rua do Russel 450/s.601, 22.210-010 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil;3. Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development, Paris, France;4. International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Cali, Colombia;5. Environmental consultant, Belém, Brazil;1. Department of Ecology and Evolution and Consortium for Inter-Disciplinary Environmental Research, SUNY Stony Brook, NY, USA;2. School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA;3. Landscape Ecology and Ecosystem Modelling Laboratory, Department of Biology, Sciences Faculty, National University of Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia;1. Centro de Desenvolvimento Sustentável, Universidade de Brasília, Campus Darcy Ribeiro, 70.904-970 Brasília, Brazil;2. LEI-Wageningen UR, PO Box 29703, 2502 LS The Hague, The Netherlands;1. Center for Higher Amazonian Studies (NAEA), Federal University of Para, P.O box 399, 66075-110, Belem, Para, Brazil;2. Amazon Institute for Environmental Research (IPAM), 71503-505 SHIN CA 5, Bloco J2, Sala 309, Bairro Lago Norte, 71503-505 Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil;3. Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA 02450, USA |
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| Abstract: | Researchers are increasingly interested in understanding the impact of contentious social processes on land change. In the Brazilian Amazon, there are often contentious interactions between landholders defending private property rights and squatters who have the right to occupy land that is deemed unproductive. Previous studies suggest that the contentious social processes inherent in the Brazilian land tenure and land reform system cause a significant amount of deforestation. An environment of insecure land title, and policies that value deforested land over forested land, among other factors, encourage both landholders and squatters to deforest more land than is necessary for pasture or crop production. This paper examines the impact that land occupations have on deforestation at the municipal scale across the Brazilian Legal Amazon, from 2000 to 2009. We show that land occupations have a direct influence on deforestation. We use spatial analysis as well to show that land occupations have a spatial component in the effect on deforestation: occupations in one municipality affect deforestation in adjacent areas. |
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| Keywords: | Land use Property rights Deforestation |
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