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Biblioteca Land tenure insecurity and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazonia

Land tenure insecurity and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazonia

Land tenure insecurity and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazonia

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Date of publication
Mayo 2016
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OSF_preprint:460BE-E44-5E6

This paper examines the effects of land tenure insecurity originating from land reforms on deforestation in the Brazilian Amazonia. A non cooperative game model is developed where natural forests are considered as an open access resource and the strategic interactions between landowners and squatters lead to an over deforestation. The main theoretical restriction is a positive impact of squatters on deforestation. It is successfully tested on a panel data set covering the municipalities of the Legal Amazonia controlling for the endogeneity of squatters in a deforestation equation. The result questions the modalities of the state-led land reform. Deforestation, Land reform, Land tenure insecurity, Panel estimation, Latin America, Brazil.

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Author(s), editor(s), contributor(s)

Claudio Araujo
Pascale Combes Motel
Catherine Araujo Bonjean
Jean-Louis Combes
Eustaquio J. Reis

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