The dynamics of land-use in Brazilian Amazon

Ecological Economics

Volumn 84, Issue , 2012, Pages 23-36

  Mendonça, Mário Jorge ^a   Loureiro, Paulo R A ^b   Sachsida, Adolfo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE PESQUISA ECONÔMICA APLICADA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazilian Amazon; Impulse response functions; Panel data; Spatial autocorrelation; Variance Decomposition; Vector autoregressive

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEFORESTATION; ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS; ERROR ANALYSIS; HETEROGENEITY; LAND USE CHANGE; NATURAL RESOURCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PANEL DATA; PASTURE; RANCHING; SHIFTING CULTIVATION; SUSTAINABILITY; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL;

BOS;

EID: 84869103551     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2012.08.014     Document Type: Article

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