This paper investigates the apparent paradox of the mid 2000’s sharp reduction in the deforestation of the Brazilian … estimate the effects of well-known drivers in the deforestation process, such as cattle herd and soybean crops, as well as the … effect of the conservation policy. The results suggest that the policy not only had a direct effect of reducing deforestation …

political discourses affect deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon region. Relying on novel data from Twitter, we present … the first causal evidence of political discourse on deforestation. Our analysis relies on municipal level monthly panel …