Estimating the impacts of local policy innovation: The synthetic control method applied to tropical deforestation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Sills, Erin O ^a,c   Herrera, Diego ^b   Kirkpatrick, A Justin ^b   Brandão, Amintas ^c   Dickson, Rebecca ^c   Hall, Simon ^d   Pattanayak, Subhrendu ^b   Shoch, David ^c   Vedoveto, Mariana ^e   Young, Luisa ^f   Pfaff, Alexander ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c IMAZON Amazon Institute of People and the Environment ^*  (United States)

^d National Wildlife Federation   (United States)

^e Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^f CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LAND USE; LAW ENFORCEMENT; RURAL AREA; SYNTHETIC CONTROL METHOD; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEM; FOREST; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; PUBLIC POLICY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

BRAZIL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PUBLIC POLICY; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84940705350     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0132590     Document Type: Article

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