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Forests and deforestation: incentives, monitoring and enforcement Location: Auditorium F Session Chair: Stella Schons, Virginia Tech | |
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Satellites and Fines: Using Monitoring to Target Inspections of Deforestation Southern Methodist University, United States of America Effectively fighting deforestation requires monitoring of vast areas, which is possible thanks to satellite imagery. However, satellite monitoring can only reduce deforestation if three conditions are met: the monitoring alerts must be informative, the enforcement agency must use them to target inspections, and farmers must respond to enforcement action by doing less deforestation. This paper quantifies the contribution of real-time monitoring in deforestation reduction using detailed satellite and administrative data in the Brazilian Amazon forest. It studies the whole chain of events from the production of a deforestation alert to its effect on deforestation. It first documents an improvement in the monitoring system’s ability to detect infractions in real-time. Then it estimates the impact that real-time alerts have on deforestation inspections. Finally, it estimates the impact of inspections on deforestation using an instrumental variable approach and an event study. Overall, the real-time alerts increase by two percentage points the inspection probability for offenders, avoiding approximately 430 square kilometers of de- forestation per year. | |