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Forests, land use, and economic development Location: Auditorium C: Thore Johnsen Session Chair: Manuel Linsenmeier, Princeton University | |
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The Evolving Relationship between Market Access and Deforestation on the Amazon Frontier 1: University of North Carolina, USA; 2: NC State University, USA Access to markets also means access to urban centers, which has multiple influences on household decisions. This study demonstrates that the combined effect of “urban access” on deforestation is ambiguous and can change over time. By modeling deforestation over 24 years on approximately 8,700 farm properties in the Brazilian Amazon, we find the relationship between distance to urban centers and deforestation changed from negative to positive around 2004. Further investigation suggests that the diminishing role of transportation cost in farm-gate price combined with increasing enforcement of environmental laws and urban labor market opportunities triggered the change in the effect of distance on deforestation. | |