"This book represents the first comprehensive attempt to examine both the positive and negative economic consequences of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. The heart of the analysis is an impressive econometric analysis that not only analyzes the key factors behind Amazonian deforestation but also signals how the process offorest loss and development loss in the region has changed overtime. This book is a valuable source for anyone interested in the relationship between deforestation and economic development, in the Brazilian Amazon as well as the rest of the tropical world."
Ed Barbier, University of Wyoming
1. Introduction
2. Development of the Brazilian Amazon
3. The municipal database
4. The sources and agents of deforestation
5. Alternatives to deforestation: extractivism
6. Modeling deforestation and development in the Brazilian
Amazon
7. Carbon emissions
8. The costs and benefits of deforestation
9. Conclusions and recommendations