Economic growth and the forest development path: A theoretical re-assessment of the environmental Kuznets curve for deforestation

N Caravaggio - Forest Policy and Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the literature of an unresolved question in environmental economics, the
environmental Kuznets curve for deforestation (EKCd). It begins by summarizing the general …

Land use sustainability on the South-Eastern Amazon agricultural frontier: Recent progress and the challenges ahead

D Arvor, I Tritsch, C Barcellos, N Jégou, V Dubreuil - Applied geography, 2017 - Elsevier
The recent decoupling of deforestation and soybean production has raised optimistic
expectations towards enhanced land use sustainability in the South-Eastern Amazon …

Big earth observation time series analysis for monitoring Brazilian agriculture

MCA Picoli, G Camara, I Sanches, R Simões… - ISPRS journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper presents innovative methods for using satellite image time series to produce land
use and land cover classification over large areas in Brazil from 2001 to 2016. We used …

[图书][B] Natural resources and economic development

E Barbier - 2019 - books.google.com
Why is natural resource exploitation not yielding greater benefits for the poor economies? In
this second edition of his landmark book, Barbier explores this paradox in three parts. Part I …

Government policies endanger the indigenous peoples of the Brazilian Amazon

KV Conceição, MED Chaves, MCA Picoli, AH Sánchez… - Land use policy, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Brazilian Amazon rainforest deforestation rate increased by 34.1% between
2018 and 2019, reaching even protected areas, such as Indigenous Lands (ILs). In …

Potential increase of legal deforestation in Brazilian Amazon after Forest Act revision

FLM Freitas, G Sparovek, G Berndes, UM Persson… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract The Brazilian Amazon rainforest is protected largely by command and control
regulation of public and private land. The Brazilian Forest Act requires private landholders …

Is green rural transformation possible in develo** countries?

EB Barbier - World Development, 2020 - Elsevier
Green transformation offers the promise of attaining increased productivity, higher incomes
and wealth creation through structural change while simultaneously reducing …

Translating fire impacts in Southwestern Amazonia into economic costs

WA Campanharo, AP Lopes, LO Anderson… - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Between 1998 and 2017, climate-related disasters represented 91% of all occurrences
worldwide, causing approximately US 2.245billionofdirecteconomiclosses …

Environmental foe or friend: The influence of the shadow economy on forest land

CP Nguyen, BQ Nguyen - Land Use Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
Previous studies indicate that the shadow economy is truly an environmental foe, with
positive linkages with energy intensity, air pollution, and emissions. This study extends the …

The nexus between environmental performance and economic growth: New evidence from the Middle East and North Africa region

A Sheikhzeinoddin, MH Tarazkar, A Behjat… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to the importance of the environmental impacts of human activities on sustainable
growth, the effect of environmental performance on economic growth was investigated for …