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.
Format:	Reporte técnico
Language:	Inglés
Published:	2020
Subjects:	FRONTERAS INFRAESTRUCTURA BOSQUE DEFORESTACIÓN CRECIMIENTO URBANO POLITICAS CONSERVACION ESTRATEGIAS CARRETERAS AMAZONIA (BRASIL)
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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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.
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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.
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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
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Roads & SDGs, tradeoffs and synergies: learning from Brazil’s Amazon in distinguishing frontiers

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