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Marine Spatial Planning as a public policy management tool for Brazil's Blue Amazon

Andrade, Israel de Oliveira; Carvalho, Andrea Bento - 2026

Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) is an internationally known tool for organizing and governing marine spaces and activities, economic or otherwise, carried out in these spaces. Being a public process of mapping and analyzing the maritime area that involves multiple interests, actors and factors, it...

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Amazon Sustainable Landscapes Program : Progress Report 2025

2026

The Amazon Sustainable Landscapes (ASL) Program, 2025 Progress Report presents an overview of achievements and ongoing efforts to promote integrated landscape management, biodiversity conservation, and sustainable development across the Amazon region. Funded by the Global Environment Facility...

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Green mandates and the politics in the jungle : do leftist mayors curb Amazon deforestation?

Nishijima, Marislei; Pal, Sarmistha - 2026

This paper investigates whether left-leaning politicians are more effective than their rightleaning counterparts in reducing deforestation in the Legal Amazon in Brazil. Using data from 760 Amazon municipalities and a regression discontinuity approach based on close elections, it finds that...

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Narco-deforestation: the environmental effects of coca cultivation

Tozzi, Giulia - 2026

This paper explores the environmental consequences of illegal drug production, specifically focusing on the impact of coca prices and cultivation on tree cover density in Peru. Using satellite imagery and granular data on the economic value of coca cultivation, I show that fluctuations in coca...

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La protección del medioambiente y las políticas de desarrollo en la Amazonia brasileña

2025

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Amazonia : a journey toward prosperity & resilience

2025

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Can economic development and forest conservation coexist? : revisiting growth and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Barros, Pedro Henrique Batista de; Chimeli, Ariaster - 2025

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The impacts of palm oil expansion on deforestation and economic activity in the Eastern Amazon

Barros, Pedro Henrique Batista de; Chimeli, Ariaster - 2025

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The impacts of palm oil expansion on deforestation and economic activity in the Eastern Amazon

Barros, Pedro Henrique Batista de; Chimeli, Ariaster - 2024

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Cities in Amazonia : people and nature in harmony

2025

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Deforestation and forest degradation in the Amazon : update for year 2023 and assessment of humid forest regrowth

2025

The Amazon rainforest, a vital global ecosystem, is facing significant threats from the loss of intact forest through deforestation and degradation. This report provides an overview of recent forest changes in the Amazon, focusing on Brazil, the country with the largest portion of the Amazon....

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The supply of forest-based CO₂ removal

Franklin, Sergio Luis; Pindyck, Robert S. - 2025 - This draft: January 15, 2025

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Amazonia Bond Issuance Guidelines

World Bank - 2025

Amazonia, the world's largest tropical rainforest region, plays a critical role in global bio-diversity, climate regulation, and sustaining the livelihoods of millions of people, including Indigenous peoples (IP), Afro-descendants (AD), and traditional communities (TC). It faces several complex...

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Indigenous Peoples and the Brazilian Amazon

2025

Indigenous Peoples and their lands play a vital role in protecting forests and biomes from deforestation, conserving biodiversity, and regulating climate balance. However, they face centuries of marginalization, with challenges such as social inequality, lack of access to basic services, and...

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Influence of land-use planning on public forests' vegetation cover : insights from the Brazilian Amazon

Moraes, Iranilda; Azevedo-Ramos, Claudia - 2025

Allocating Brazilian undesignated public forests (UPF) to specific land-use categories is advocated as essential for improved forest governance. In 2010, a 1.3-million-hectare area of UPF in eastern Amazon, known as the Mamuru-Arapiuns Glebas, underwent a land-use planning and allocation...

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The economic impact of project Kuiper's launch partnerships in the EU

2025

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Beyond the canopy : how satellite data detection thresholds influence policy evaluation and deforestation behavior

Vogel, Kathryn Baragwanath; Shinde, Nilesh - 2025

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Consequences of the 2024 Fires in the Amazon : A Rapid Valuation of Damages

2025

The year 2024 was one of the most active years for fires in recent history across the Americas, highlighting the growing influence of climate change on fire behavior, frequency, and intensity. In the second half of the year, several regions in South America including in the Amazon were...

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A Place-Based Infrastructure Approach for Bioeconomies in the Amazon Region

Sekerinska, Liljana; Charlita De Freitas, Luciano; De … - 2025

This report advocates for a place-based infrastructure strategy to unlock the Amazon's sustainable bioeconomy, balancing economic inclusion with environmental protection. It highlights the region's infrastructure gaps, especially in transport, energy, and digital connectivity, which collectively...

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Status and trend of Amazon forest fragmentation from 2001 to 2022

2025

This document describes the design process, definitions, and algorithmic implementation for an assessment of forest fragmentation across the Amazon. This study follows a request raised by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) to conduct an assessment on the state of the...

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The cocoa commodity chain in the Peruvian and Ecuadorian Amazonia : similar industrial upgrading processes but divergent socio-environmental constructions

Viejó-Bautista, María-José; Higuchi, Angie; … - 2025

Purpose: Analyse the functioning of the Amazonian cocoa commodity chain works in Napo (Ecuador) and Tocache (Peru), focusing on the factors that shape its governance and attempts at its subversion through economic, social and environmental upgrading processes. Design/methodology/approach: The...

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Implementation of the Brazilian Forest Code : a meso-institutional approach

Oliveira, Gustavo Magalhães de; Schneider, Paula … - 2025

This article extends recent insights from new institutional economics to explore the relevance of the concept of meso-institutions. It does so through the exploration of the case of the Brazilian Forest Code, pointing out how and why meso-institutions play a key role in making public policies...

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Long-term effects of a commodity boom : rubber slavery in the Amazon

Araújo, Daniel; Laudares, Humberto; Murillo, Dafne; … - 2025

Can a brief period of economic prosperity leave a legacy of long-term adversity for local populations? This study investigates the enduring impact of the Amazon rubber boom around 1900 on contemporary income, inequality, Indigenous groups presence, and forest conservation. Identification...

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Can virtual reality enhance scope sensitivity? : experimental evidence from the Amazon rainforest

Chung, Vincent - 2025

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Hybrid agricultural extension and the adoption of climate-resilient varieties : evidence from oil palm in the Amazon

Estefan, Alejandro; Ordoñez, Romina; Parilli, Cristina; … - 2025

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The socioeconomic impacts of Amazon investments on local communities

2025

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Coercion and consent under techno-economic despotism : workers' alienation and "liberation" in the Amazon warehouse

Miszczyński, Miłosz; Zanoni, Patrizia - 2025

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Implications of smallholder livelihoods for scaling oil palm agroforestry in Brazilian Eastern Amazon

Braga, Daniel Palma Perez; Miccolis, Andrew; Ramos, … - 2024

Despite its economic potential, oil palm has earned a bad reputation for its negative environmental and mixed social impacts. In the Eastern Brazilian Amazon, oil palm production has expanded rapidly over the past decade. Meanwhile, in the same landscape, Agroforestry Systems (AFS) have been...

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Managing circular ecosystems in imperfect contexts : the case of extractive fishing in the Brazilian Amazon region

Barbosa, Neuzaí Marreiros; Hellmeister, Pedro Ibrahim; … - 2024

Purpose This study aims to answer the question of how to structure a circular ecosystem for extractive fishing in the Amazon region. It explores possibilities for implementing a circular ecosystem management model in an imperfect market with low technological availability, high informality and...

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Disciplined innovation : a case study of the Amazon Working Backwards approach to internal corporate venturing

Ates, Aylin; Suppayah, Kumuda - 2024

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Landing on water : air interdiction, drug-trafficking displacement, and violence in the Brazilian Amazon

Pereira, Leila; Pucci, Rafael; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2024

We study a Force-down/Shoot-down intervention in Brazil that led cocaine traffickers to shift from air to river routes. Using data on cocaine production, homicides, and the network of rivers in the Amazon, we provide evidence that violence increased in municipalities along river routes...

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The economic consequences of environmental enforcement : evidence from an anti-deforestation policy in Brazil

Merkus, Erik - 2024

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Greater flexibility in payments for ecosystem services : evidence from an RCT in the Amazon

Demarchi, Gabriela; Subervie, Julie; Carrilho, Cauê; … - 2024

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A supply curve for forest-based CO2 removal

Franklin, Sergio Luis; Pindyck, Robert S. - 2024 - This draft: February 27, 2024

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Do forest conservation policies undermine the soybean sector in the Brazilian Amazon? : evidence from the priority listing of municipalities

Crepin, Léa - 2024

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Revisiting decision-making assumptions to improve deforestation predictions : evidence from the Amazon

Reis Cunha, Priscila dos; Neto, Camilo Rodrigues; … - 2024

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Drought in the Amazon and the La Plata Basins : December 2024 : GDO analytical report

2024

Severe droughts are currently affecting most of the Amazon and the La Plata basins and other regions in South America with extremely dry and warm conditions. - Heatwaves and warm spells are exacerbating the impacts of the lack of precipitation. The average temperature is abnormally higher than...

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Post-diversity, precarious work for all : unmaking borders to govern labour in the Amazon warehouse

Zanoni, Patrizia; Miszczyński, Miłosz - 2024

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Banking on deforestation : the cost of nonenforcement

Berger, Allen N.; Ortega, Cristina; Ossandon Busch, Matias - 2024

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The effect of fire-induced forest-degradation on rainfall : a causal inference analysis of the case of the Brazilian Amazon

Silva, Thiago Fonseca Morello Ramalho da - 2024

Forest degradation by fires is growing in a fast pace in the Brazilian portion of the Amazonian rainforest, damaging the regional environment and economy. Seeking to measure the impact of such process on rainfall, the paper analyses a wide diversity of fine-grained satellite measurements with...

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Behind the clicks : can Amazon allocate user attention as it pleases?

Rock, Rufus; Strauss, Ilan; O'Reilly, Tim; Mazzucato, … - 2024

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Unintended environmental consequences of anti-corruption strategies

Cisneros Tersitsch, Marco Elías; Kis-Katos, Krisztina - 2024

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Amazon green recovery and labor market in Brazil : can green spending reduce gender and race inequalities?

Marques, Pedro Romero; Pires, Luiza Nassif; Taioka, Tainari - 2024

Announced in June 2021, the never-implemented Green Recovery Plan for the Brazilian Legal Amazon Region (GRP) would be a green transition initiative to be carried out by the state governments of the region. The GRP represented the first large-scale proposal aiming at the transition to a...

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Amazon green recovery and labor market in Brazil: can green spending reduce gender and race inequalities?

Marques, Pedro Romero; Pires, Luiza Nassif; Taioka, Tainari - 2024

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A tale of gold and blood : the consequences of market deregulation on local violence

Pereira, Leila; Pucci, Rafael - 2024

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¿Políticas tributarias para el desarrollo? : un estudio sobre el cambio de régimen de beneficios tributarios en la región San Martín

Mendoza, José Antonio - 2023 - Primera edición digital

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Early Indigenous Extinctions and Modern Deforestation in the Amazon

Barsanetti, Bruno; Ferreira, Alípio - 2023

This paper studies the long-run relationship between historical indigenous presence and modern tropical deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. We georeference information on the historical location of indigenous groups, which groups went extinct, and the likely underlying extinction causes. We...

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Mind your language : political discourse affects deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Oliveira, Gustavo Magalhães de; Sellare, Jorge Luis; … - 2023

Land users make decisions in an increasingly dynamic environment. Changes in expectations are driven by market and non-market factors, but research on market related drivers of land use change so far dominates in the literature. This paper examines how political discourses affect deforestation...

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Mind Your Language : Political Discourse Affects Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Oliveira, Gustavo Magalhães de; Sellare, Jorge Luis; … - 2023

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Biochar Effects on Ntfp-Enriched Secondary Forest Growth and Soil Properties in Amazonian Ecuador

Ríos Guayasamín, Pedro; Smith, Sandy M.; Thomas, Sean C. - 2023

Deforestation in the Amazon has resulted in large areas of depleted soils on abandoned pastures and agricultural sites that present a restoration challenge central to protecting biodiversity and ecosystem function in the region. Biochar – charcoal made from waste materials – can improve soil...

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Value Perceptions of First-Party Content on Multi-Sided Platforms : Findings from the Amazon Marketplace

Veisdal, Jørgen - 2023

In the context of multi-sided platform literature, the strategic use of first-party content has previously been studied from the perspectives of entry, rent extraction, integration and governance. In these contexts, consumers’ value perceptions of first- and third-party content has been...

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Optimización del aprovechamiento de productos maderables de tres especies forestales comerciales en el departamento del Guaviare (departamento de la Amazonía Colombiana) (Optimization of the Use of Timber Products of Three Commercial Forest Species in the Department of Guaviare (Department of the Colombian Amazon))

Castellanos Niño, Yuli; Marco, Jorge - 2023

El Manejo Forestal Sostenible (MFS) es un instrumento de gestión forestal basado en un proceso de planificación racional sobre la oferta forestal y las normas y prescripciones de protección y sostenibilidad de los bosques naturales. En Colombia se ha identificado como una estrategia para...

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Cultivating space for contemporary resistance in Brazil's Amazon and Cerrado

Garvey, Brian; Mendonça, Maria Luisa; Torres, Maurício; … - 2023

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