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Three Essays on Environmental Issues in Brazil

Year: 2015

Type: article

Abstract: This research develops three essays on environmental issues in Brazil.The first two essays look at the effects of rural credit and land-use change in Brazil.Previous economic models have come to the conclusion that rural credit loans extended to farmers increases deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon region by encouraging land expansion.The first essay is an analysis of deforestation in the Legal Amazon region.The paper uses municipality-level panel data to examine the effects of rural credit on deforestation while controlling for land constraints.The hypothesis * vii

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Author: Essence Hales

Institution: The Ohio State University

Language: English

Topic: Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management

Subfield: Global and Planetary Change

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Life on land

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2340694537

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