Transportation costs and the spatial distribution of land use in the Brazilian Amazon

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The Ecological Impact of Transportation Infrastructure (2018, background): “pre-construction year (2000), the construction period (2001-2004), and two post construction periods (2005-2008 and 2009-2012).”
Forest Clearing in Rural Livelihoods: Household-Level Global-Comparative Evidence (2014, background): “Roads have been found to increase the likelihood of forest clearing through their effect on reducing transportation costs, providing market access, and thereby making deforesting activities more profitable (Angelsen, 2010; Chomitz & Gray, 1995; Pfaff, 1999; Weinhold & Reis, 2008).”
What Drives Deforestation and What Stops it? A Meta-Analysis of Spatially Explicit Econometric Studies (2014, unknown): “(Pfaff 2007a; Weinhold and Reis 2008; Deng 2011).”
Deforestation slowdown in the Brazilian Amazon: prices or policies? (2015, background): “…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 drivers of the…”
Property rights and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon (2009, background): “Road network (Roads) 18 is introduced as proxy of transportation costs which are usually considered as a major factor of deforestation in the region (Pfaff, 1999; Weinhold and Reis, 2007).”