Land speculation and conservation policy leakage in Brazil

The Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado biomes have been subject to strong pressure from agricultural expansion over the past two decades. A common claim is that the associated tree cover loss was partly driven by speculative land acquisition. In this paper, we analyze the effects of information on planned...

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Main Authors: Javier Miranda, Jan Börner, Matthias Kalkuhl, Britaldo Soares-Filho
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2019-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab003a