Eroding resilience of deforestation interventions—evidence from Brazil's lost decade
<p>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 rece...
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| author | Kuschnig, N Vashold, L Soterroni, AC Obersteiner, M |
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| description | <p>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 <em>resilience</em> 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.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:f408759a-b9e6-45b0-ac8e-7b35af9039842024-03-08T06:16:53ZEroding resilience of deforestation interventions—evidence from Brazil's lost decadeJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_545buuid:f408759a-b9e6-45b0-ac8e-7b35af903984EnglishSymplectic ElementsIOP Publishing2023Kuschnig, NVashold, LSoterroni, ACObersteiner, M<p>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 <em>resilience</em> 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.</p> |
| spellingShingle | Kuschnig, N Vashold, L Soterroni, AC Obersteiner, M Eroding resilience of deforestation interventions—evidence from Brazil's lost decade |
| 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 |
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