Economic Causes of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: A Panel Data Analysis for the 2000s

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 471-494

  Hargrave, Jorge ^a   Kis Katos, Krisztina ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE PESQUISA ECONÔMICA APLICADA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amazon; Brazil; Causes of deforestation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; ECONOMICS;

AMAZON; BRAZIL; BRAZILIAN AMAZON; ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES; ECONOMIC INCENTIVE; PANEL DATA ANALYSIS; PANEL DATA MODELS; WOOD PRICES;

DEFORESTATION;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; DATA SET; DEFORESTATION; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; FOREST PRODUCT; WOOD;

AGRICULTURE; BRAZIL; DEFORESTATION; ECONOMICS;

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL;

EID: 84875426663     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-012-9610-2     Document Type: Article

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