This meta-analysis of land-cover transformations of the past 10–15 years in tropical forest-
agriculture frontiers world-wide shows that swidden agriculture decreases in landscapes …

Deforestation and degradation are tied to a complex array of socioeconomic and political
factors. As noted in studies focusing on large-scale policy interventions such as REDD+ and …

We examine deforestation processes in Apuí, a deforestation hotspot in Brazil's state of
Amazonas and present processes of land-use change on this Amazonian development …

We use under-explored municipality level datasets to assess the recent economic and policy
determinants of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. We estimate yearly panel data …

Wildfires influence terrestrial carbon cycling and represent a safety risk, and yet a process-
based understanding of their frequency and spatial distributions remains elusive. We …

This paper investigates the relationship between farm size and land use efficiency in the
Brazilian Amazon. Based on data from the 2006 Brazilian Agricultural Census, we estimated …

A ação do INCRA na Amazônia revela um paradoxo: por mais que a ocupação humana
daquela região fosse uma estratégia dos governos militares, é na fase democrática recente …

Understanding actor-specific responsibility for deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is key
in adjusting policy and resource allocation in the face of current forest destruction. However …

Abstract Reconstruction of Highway BR-319 (Manaus-Porto Velho) would allow for access
from the “arc of deforestation” in the southern part of Brazil's Amazon region to vast blocks of …

Agricultural encroachment into low-governance forest frontiers including vast tracts of
hitherto unclaimed public lands and indigenous territories represents one of the most abrupt …