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The Brazilian Amazon contains some of the world's most biologically diverse ecosystems. These ecosystems generate significant global benefits in the form of ecosystem services, species habitats and environmental amenities. However, the land required to keep these ecosystems intact and the value of natural resources the Amazon could generate under alternative usage is substantial. This means that a decision not to convert these areas imposes high opportunity costs on the economy of a developing country as a whole, and on local populations with a high incidence of poverty and destitution in…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
The Brazilian Amazon contains some of the world's
most biologically diverse ecosystems. These
ecosystems generate significant global benefits in
the form of ecosystem services, species habitats and
environmental amenities. However, the land required
to keep these ecosystems intact and the value of
natural resources the Amazon could generate under
alternative usage is substantial. This means that a
decision not to convert these areas imposes high
opportunity costs on the economy of a developing
country as a whole, and on local populations with a
high incidence of poverty and destitution in
particular. The importance of balancing this
trade-off has increasingly been recognised in
Brazilian development policy. This book aims to
investigate microeconomic issues related to land use
in the Brazilian Amazon emphasizing their
relationship with spatial processes of deforestation
and regional development. After a brief description
of the region and the exploratory analysis of the
data used in the research, theoretical models and
econometric methods are adopted to address specific
questions in four essays.
Autorenporträt
Danilo C. Igliori is University Lecturer at the Department of
Economics, University of Sao Paulo and Affiliated Lecturer at the
Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge. He has
published in leading academic journals such as Land Economics,
Journal of Regional Science and Urban Studies. He is also
co-editor of Spatial Economic Analysis.