Roads & SDGs, tradeoffs and synergies: learning from Brazil’s Amazon in distinguishing frontiers

To inform the search for SDG synergies in infrastructure provision, and to reduce SDG tradeoffs, the authors show that road impacts on Brazilian Amazon forests have varied significantly across settings. Forest loss varied predictably with prior development – both prior roads and prior deforestation...

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Main Authors: Pfaff, Alexander, Robalino, Juan, Reis, Eustaquio J., Walker, Robert, Perz, Stephen, Laurance, William, Bohrer, Claudio, Aldrich, Steven, Arima, Eugenio, Caldas, Marcellus, Kirby, Kathryn R.
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Published: 2020
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Online Access:https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/9564
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spelling RepoCATIE95642022-02-18T17:20:54Z Roads & SDGs, tradeoffs and synergies: learning from Brazil’s Amazon in distinguishing frontiers Pfaff, Alexander Robalino, Juan Reis, Eustaquio J. Walker, Robert Perz, Stephen Laurance, William Bohrer, Claudio Aldrich, Steven Arima, Eugenio Caldas, Marcellus Kirby, Kathryn R. FRONTERAS INFRAESTRUCTURA BOSQUE DEFORESTACIÓN CRECIMIENTO URBANO POLITICAS CONSERVACION ESTRATEGIAS CARRETERAS AMAZONIA (BRASIL) To inform the search for SDG synergies in infrastructure provision, and to reduce SDG tradeoffs, the authors show that road impacts on Brazilian Amazon forests have varied significantly across settings. Forest loss varied predictably with prior development – both prior roads and prior deforestation – and in a spatial pattern suggesting a synergy between forests and urban growth in such frontiers. Examining multiple roads investments, the authors estimate impact for settings of high, medium and low prior roads and deforestation. Census-tract observations are numerous for each setting and reveal a pattern, not consistent with endogeneity, that confirms our predictions for this kind of frontier. Impacts are: low after relatively high prior development; larger for medium prior development, at the forest margin; then low again for low prior development. For the latter setting, the authors note that in such isolated areas, interactions with conservation policies influence forest impacts over time. These Amazonian results suggest ‘SDG strategic’ locations of infrastructure, an idea they suggest for other frontiers while highlighting differences in those frontiers and their SDG opportunities. 2020-09-01T18:19:17Z 2020-09-01T18:19:17Z 2017-10-09 Reporte técnico https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/9564 en Economics Discussion Papers, No 2017-83 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess application/pdf
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language Inglés
topic FRONTERAS
INFRAESTRUCTURA
BOSQUE
DEFORESTACIÓN
CRECIMIENTO URBANO
POLITICAS
CONSERVACION
ESTRATEGIAS
CARRETERAS
AMAZONIA (BRASIL)
spellingShingle FRONTERAS
INFRAESTRUCTURA
BOSQUE
DEFORESTACIÓN
CRECIMIENTO URBANO
POLITICAS
CONSERVACION
ESTRATEGIAS
CARRETERAS
AMAZONIA (BRASIL)
Pfaff, Alexander
Robalino, Juan
Reis, Eustaquio J.
Walker, Robert
Perz, Stephen
Laurance, William
Bohrer, Claudio
Aldrich, Steven
Arima, Eugenio
Caldas, Marcellus
Kirby, Kathryn R.
Roads & SDGs, tradeoffs and synergies: learning from Brazil’s Amazon in distinguishing frontiers
description To inform the search for SDG synergies in infrastructure provision, and to reduce SDG tradeoffs, the authors show that road impacts on Brazilian Amazon forests have varied significantly across settings. Forest loss varied predictably with prior development – both prior roads and prior deforestation – and in a spatial pattern suggesting a synergy between forests and urban growth in such frontiers. Examining multiple roads investments, the authors estimate impact for settings of high, medium and low prior roads and deforestation. Census-tract observations are numerous for each setting and reveal a pattern, not consistent with endogeneity, that confirms our predictions for this kind of frontier. Impacts are: low after relatively high prior development; larger for medium prior development, at the forest margin; then low again for low prior development. For the latter setting, the authors note that in such isolated areas, interactions with conservation policies influence forest impacts over time. These Amazonian results suggest ‘SDG strategic’ locations of infrastructure, an idea they suggest for other frontiers while highlighting differences in those frontiers and their SDG opportunities.
format Reporte técnico
author Pfaff, Alexander
Robalino, Juan
Reis, Eustaquio J.
Walker, Robert
Perz, Stephen
Laurance, William
Bohrer, Claudio
Aldrich, Steven
Arima, Eugenio
Caldas, Marcellus
Kirby, Kathryn R.
author_facet Pfaff, Alexander
Robalino, Juan
Reis, Eustaquio J.
Walker, Robert
Perz, Stephen
Laurance, William
Bohrer, Claudio
Aldrich, Steven
Arima, Eugenio
Caldas, Marcellus
Kirby, Kathryn R.
author_sort Pfaff, Alexander
title Roads & SDGs, tradeoffs and synergies: learning from Brazil’s Amazon in distinguishing frontiers
title_short Roads & SDGs, tradeoffs and synergies: learning from Brazil’s Amazon in distinguishing frontiers
title_full Roads & SDGs, tradeoffs and synergies: learning from Brazil’s Amazon in distinguishing frontiers
title_fullStr Roads & SDGs, tradeoffs and synergies: learning from Brazil’s Amazon in distinguishing frontiers
title_full_unstemmed Roads & SDGs, tradeoffs and synergies: learning from Brazil’s Amazon in distinguishing frontiers
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