Eroding resilience of deforestation interventions—evidence from Brazil’s lost decade
Brazil once set the example for curtailing deforestation with command and control policies, but, in the last decade, these interventions have gone astray. Environmental research and policy today are largely informed by the earlier successes of deforestation interventions, but not their recent failur...
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| author | Nikolas Kuschnig Lukas Vashold Aline C Soterroni Michael Obersteiner |
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| description | Brazil once set the example for curtailing deforestation with command and control policies, but, in the last decade, these interventions have gone astray. Environmental research and policy today are largely informed by the earlier successes of deforestation interventions, but not their recent failures. Here, we investigate the resilience of deforestation interventions. We discuss how the recent trend reversal in Brazil came to be, and what its implications for the design of future policies are. We use newly compiled information on environmental fines in an econometric model to show that the enforcement of environmental policy has become ineffective in recent years. Our results add empirical evidence to earlier studies documenting the erosion of the institutions responsible for forest protection, and highlight the considerable deforestation impacts of this erosion. Future efforts for sustainable forest protection should be aimed at strengthening institutions, spreading responsibilities, and redistributing the common value of forests via incentive-based systems. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4f89696fcb08428c9c85189c4d159f8b2023-08-09T15:18:07ZengIOP PublishingEnvironmental Research Letters1748-93262023-01-0118707403910.1088/1748-9326/acdfe7Eroding resilience of deforestation interventions—evidence from Brazil’s lost decadeNikolas Kuschnig0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6642-2543Lukas Vashold1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3562-3414Aline C Soterroni2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3113-096XMichael Obersteiner3https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6981-2769Vienna University of Economics and Business , Vienna, AustriaVienna University of Economics and Business , Vienna, AustriaUniversity of Oxford , Oxford, United KingdomUniversity of Oxford , Oxford, United Kingdom; International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis , Laxenburg, AustriaBrazil once set the example for curtailing deforestation with command and control policies, but, in the last decade, these interventions have gone astray. Environmental research and policy today are largely informed by the earlier successes of deforestation interventions, but not their recent failures. Here, we investigate the resilience of deforestation interventions. We discuss how the recent trend reversal in Brazil came to be, and what its implications for the design of future policies are. We use newly compiled information on environmental fines in an econometric model to show that the enforcement of environmental policy has become ineffective in recent years. Our results add empirical evidence to earlier studies documenting the erosion of the institutions responsible for forest protection, and highlight the considerable deforestation impacts of this erosion. Future efforts for sustainable forest protection should be aimed at strengthening institutions, spreading responsibilities, and redistributing the common value of forests via incentive-based systems.https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acdfe7deforestationpolicyAmazonenforcementinstitutionsincentive |
| spellingShingle | Nikolas Kuschnig Lukas Vashold Aline C Soterroni Michael Obersteiner Eroding resilience of deforestation interventions—evidence from Brazil’s lost decade Environmental Research Letters deforestation policy Amazon enforcement institutions incentive |
| title | Eroding resilience of deforestation interventions—evidence from Brazil’s lost decade |
| title_full | Eroding resilience of deforestation interventions—evidence from Brazil’s lost decade |
| title_fullStr | Eroding resilience of deforestation interventions—evidence from Brazil’s lost decade |
| title_full_unstemmed | Eroding resilience of deforestation interventions—evidence from Brazil’s lost decade |
| title_short | Eroding resilience of deforestation interventions—evidence from Brazil’s lost decade |
| title_sort | eroding resilience of deforestation interventions evidence from brazil s lost decade |
| topic | deforestation policy Amazon enforcement institutions incentive |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acdfe7 |
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