Contents
| List of figures | pagevii | |
| List of tables | ix | |
| Preface | xiii | |
| List of acronyms and abbreviations | xviii | |
| 1 | Introduction | 1 |
| Deforestation and development | 4 | |
| Structure of the book | 9 | |
| 2 | Development of the Brazilian Amazon | 11 |
| The geographic focus: the Brazilian Legal Amazonia | 11 | |
| Historical perspectives | 13 | |
| “Operation Amazonia” and SUDAM | 15 | |
| The rise of environmental concern | 18 | |
| Improvements in monitoring capacity and enforcement | 20 | |
| The distributional impact of Amazon development | 21 | |
| Avança Brasil | 33 | |
| Conclusions | 34 | |
| 3 | The municipal database | 36 |
| Deforestation: concepts and measures | 37 | |
| Socio-economic dimensions | 48 | |
| Geo-ecological dimensions | 61 | |
| 4 | The sources and agents of deforestation | 66 |
| Cattle ranching | 70 | |
| Small- and large-scale agriculture | 77 | |
| Logging | 80 | |
| Mining | 83 | |
| Hydroelectric dams | 85 | |
| Property rights | 86 | |
| Secondary forest growth | 88 | |
| 5 | Alternatives to deforestation: extractivism | 91 |
| The data | 93 | |
| Mapping extractive value densities | 97 | |
| Explaining spatial differences in extraction values | 101 | |
| Conclusions and discussion | 107 | |
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Publication information:
Book title: The Dynamics of Deforestation and Economic Growth in the Brazilian Amazon.
Contributors: Lykke E. Andersen - Author, Clive W. J. Granger - Author, Eustáquio J. Reis - Author, Diana Weinhold - Author, Sven Wunder - Author.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press.
Place of publication: Cambridge, England.
Publication year: 2002.
Page number: v.
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