Naming and Shaming for Conservation: Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has dropped substantially after a peak of over 27 thousand square kilometers in 2004. Starting in 2008, the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment has regularly published blacklists of critical districts with high annual forest loss. Farms in blacklisted district...
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| author | Cisneros, E. Zhou, S.L. Börner, J. |
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| description | Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has dropped substantially after a peak of over 27 thousand square kilometers in 2004. Starting in 2008, the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment has regularly published blacklists of critical districts with high annual forest loss. Farms in blacklisted districts face additional administrative hurdles to obtain authorization for clearing forests. In this paper we add to the existing literature on evaluating the Brazilian anti-deforestation policies by specifically quantifying the impact of blacklisting on deforestation. We first use spatial matching techniques using a set of covariates that includes official blacklisting criteria to identify control districts. We then explore the effect of blacklisting on change in deforestation in double difference regressions with panel data covering the period from 2002 to 2012. Multiple robustness checks are conducted including an analysis of potential causal mechanisms behind the success of the blacklist. We find that the blacklist has considerably reduced deforestation in the affected districts even after controlling for the potential mechanism effects of field-based enforcement, environmental registration campaigns, and rural credit. |
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| spelling | CGSpace950622025-06-17T08:23:47Z Naming and Shaming for Conservation: Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon Cisneros, E. Zhou, S.L. Börner, J. forest conservation deforestation environmental degradation environmental impact Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has dropped substantially after a peak of over 27 thousand square kilometers in 2004. Starting in 2008, the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment has regularly published blacklists of critical districts with high annual forest loss. Farms in blacklisted districts face additional administrative hurdles to obtain authorization for clearing forests. In this paper we add to the existing literature on evaluating the Brazilian anti-deforestation policies by specifically quantifying the impact of blacklisting on deforestation. We first use spatial matching techniques using a set of covariates that includes official blacklisting criteria to identify control districts. We then explore the effect of blacklisting on change in deforestation in double difference regressions with panel data covering the period from 2002 to 2012. Multiple robustness checks are conducted including an analysis of potential causal mechanisms behind the success of the blacklist. We find that the blacklist has considerably reduced deforestation in the affected districts even after controlling for the potential mechanism effects of field-based enforcement, environmental registration campaigns, and rural credit. 2015 2018-07-03T11:02:19Z 2018-07-03T11:02:19Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/95062 en Open Access Public Library of Science Cisneros, E., Zhou, S.L., Börner, J.. 2015. Naming and Shaming for Conservation : Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon. PLoS ONE, 10 (9) : e0136402. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0136402 |
| spellingShingle | forest conservation deforestation environmental degradation environmental impact Cisneros, E. Zhou, S.L. Börner, J. Naming and Shaming for Conservation: Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon |
| title | Naming and Shaming for Conservation: Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon |
| title_full | Naming and Shaming for Conservation: Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon |
| title_fullStr | Naming and Shaming for Conservation: Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon |
| title_full_unstemmed | Naming and Shaming for Conservation: Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon |
| title_short | Naming and Shaming for Conservation: Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon |
| title_sort | naming and shaming for conservation evidence from the brazilian amazon |
| topic | forest conservation deforestation environmental degradation environmental impact |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/95062 |
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