Road investments, spatial spillovers, and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

By A. Pfaff, J. Robalino, Robert Walker, S. Aldrich, Marcellus Marques Caldas, E. Reis, Stephen G. Perz, C. Bohrer, Eugenio Arima, W. Laurance and 1 more. 2007

257 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Rudi Rocha
2. J. Assunção
3. Clarissa Gandour
4. A. Pfaff
5. J. Robalino
6. Sam Asher
7. P. Novosad
8. E. Arima

In Global and Planetary Change

1. Rudi Rocha
2. J. Assunção
3. Clarissa Gandour
4. J. Robalino
5. A. Pfaff
6. C. Simmons
7. Marcellus Marques Caldas
8. E. Arima

In Soil Science

1. C. Simmons
2. Marcellus Marques Caldas
3. E. Arima
4. Sam Asher
5. P. Novosad
6. A. Pfaff
7. Teevrat Garg
8. Daniel Müller

Citations in the corpus

• Deforestation slowdown in the Brazilian Amazon: prices or policies? (2015, background): “…specifically in the Brazilian Amazon (Reis and Margulis, 1991; Reis and Guzmán, 1994; Pfaff, 1999; Chomitz and Thomas, 2003; Arima et al., 2007; Pfaff et al., 2007; Weinhold and Reis, 2008; Araujo et al., 2009; Hargrave and Kis-Katos, 2013), there is scarce empirical evidence on the immediate…”
• The Ecological Impact of Transportation Infrastructure (2018, background): “Further, most of these studies have focused on 1 large highways built into the Amazon rainforest (Pfaff, 1999; Pfaff et al., 2007; Weinhold and Reis, 2008); while these highways are important in terms of potential deforestation, their impacts are of uncertain relevance for the set of potential rural”
• What Drives Deforestation and What Stops it? A Meta-Analysis of Spatially Explicit Econometric Studies (2014, unknown): “Deforestation has been found to be higher with higher commodity prices in Indonesia (Gaveau 2009; Wheeler et al 2013) and Brazil (Hargrave and Kis-Katos 2012), and on lands with greater potential agricultural revenue in Costa Rica (Pfaff 2007b) and Indonesia (Busch et al 2012).”
• Transport Corridors and Their Wider Economic Benefits (2018, background): “The most notable of these are the reviews by Redding and Turner (2014) and Berg et al.”
• Regime shifts limit the predictability of land-system change (2014, background): “Finally, infrastructure developments, especially road construction, are prominent drivers of land-system change and particularly of tropical deforestation (Pfaff et al., 2007).”
• The Effect of Rural Credit on Deforestation: Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon (2019, methodology): “Finally, we test for dynamic effects by interacting policies with road density, which has been widely acknowledged as one of the most relevant determinants of deforestation in the Amazon region (Chomitz and Gray, 1996; Angelsen and Kaimowitz, 1999; Pfaff, 1999; Chomitz and Thomas, 2003; Pfaff et al.”
• Economic Causes of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: A Panel Data Analysis for the 2000s (2013, background): “Newer literature addresses the determinants of Brazilian deforestation often at a much finer scale (involving census-tract or satellite pixel data), but incorporates mostly only crosssectional aspects of it (e.g. Arima et al. 2007; Pfaff et al. 2007).”
• Ranching and the new global range: Amazônia in the 21st century (2009, background): “…Amazonian land cover change, a finding robust in both aggregate and household-level analysis (e.g., Ozório de Almeida, 1992; Reis and Guzmán, 1994; Jones et al., 1995; Pichón, 1997; Pfaff, 1999; Walker et al., 2002; Anderson et al., 2002; Pan et al., 2004; Pfaff et al., 2007; Caldas et al., 2007).”
• Relationship between openness to trade and deforestation: : Empirical evidence from the Brazilian Amazon (2016, background): “…been extensively studied (Reis and Guzman, 1992; Pfaff, 1999; Walker et al., 2000; Weinhold and Reis, 2001; Andersen et al., 2002; Mertens et al., 2002; Margulis, 2004; Chomitz and Thomas, 2003; Pfaff et al., 2007; Diniz et al., 2009; Araujo et al., 2009; Rivero et al., 2009; Barona et al., 2010).”
• Contagious development: Neighbor interactions in deforestation (2012, background): “…affect deforestation rates in Belize (Chomitz and Gray, 1996), Mexico (Geoghegan et al., 2001; Vence and Geoghegan, 2002), Costa Rica (Pfaff et al., 2009b and Sanchez-Azofeifa et al., 2001) and Brazil (Pfaff et al., 2007; Pfaff et al., 2009a, 2010) and elsewhere (Kaimowitz and Angelsen, 1998).”