Deforestation slowdown in the Brazilian Amazon: Prices or policies?

Environment and Development Economics

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 697-722

  Assuncąo, Juliano ^a   Gandour, Clarissa ^b   Rocha, Rudi ^c  

^a PUC Rio   (Brazil)

^b Nucleo de Avaliacao de Politicas Climaticas   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

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EID: 84945440233     PISSN: 1355770X     EISSN: 14694395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355770X15000078     Document Type: Article

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