Inter-sectoral determinants of forest policy: the power of deforesting actors in post-2012 Brazil

Kröger, Markus

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2016.06.003

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“…Brazil's new Forest Code from 2012 (Republic of Brazil, Federal Law 12,615/2012) has been heavily criticized as it relaxed the previous code from 1965 (Kröger 2017). For example, the new law granted amnesty to 'small or family farms' 5 ; who deforested more than their legal 5 Landholdings up to four fiscal modules.…”

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Understanding smallholders’ intended deforestation behavior in the Brazilian Cerrado following environmental registry

Rasmussen

Jung

Brites

et al. 2016

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Brazil's Rural Environmental Registry (CAR) is a potentially promising avenue to slow deforestation on private properties as it facilitates the monitoring of land use. Yet limited empirical evidence exists on how the CAR affects smallholders' behavior and recent scholarly efforts have in fact indicated that it may be doing less to protect forests than previously assumed. Based on 1177 smallholder surveys conducted in the Cerrado, we assess 1) whether the CAR might incentivize smallholders to pursue deforestation and 2) which factors are associated with smallholders' intended deforestation behavior. We find that upon CAR registration, factors significantly associated with smallholders' intention to deforest are: the existing percentage of native vegetation on the property, the use of agricultural loans, property owner's age, and livestock production experience. To curb deforestation that may follow expressed intentions of smallholders, the CAR, and environmental registration programs alike, should account for existing land use by, for example, improving the system already in place for trading areas of native vegetation as this system is not widely adopted by those smallholders with more native vegetation than the legal cut-off. Also, such programs should assess the role of whether conditions related to land cover maintenance may protect against deforestation if credit access is supported especially to younger smallholders and/or livestock producers with a high percentage of native vegetation in their properties.

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Understanding smallholders’ intended deforestation behavior in the Brazilian Cerrado following environmental registry

Rasmussen

Jung

Brites

et al. 2016

Environ. Res. Lett.

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“…53 During her second term, Roussefffacing four consecutive years of subpar economic growth and a massive corruption scandal ('Operation Car Wash') that nearly cost her her re-electionappointed as minister of agriculture Kátia Abreu, the president of the Brazilian Confederation of Agriculture (a lobby group of large landowners) and the leading figure in the agribusiness caucus, whose anti-environmentalist positions earned her the title of 'Miss Deforestation'. 54 Unsurprisingly, under the Rousseff administration the creation of new conservation units was interrupted; in some cases, the existing protected areas were reduced. 55 In addition, the worsening of Brazil's fiscal situation resulted in a drastic reduction in financial support for pivotal environmental agencies acting in the Amazonnearly 70 per cent during Rousseff's first term when compared to Lula's last term.…”

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Close to a Tipping Point? The Amazon and the Challenge of Sustainable Development under Growing Climate Pressures

Pereira

Viola

2020

J. Lat. Am. Stud.

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This commentary examines the challenge of sustainable development in the Amazon, arguing that global efforts to mitigate climate change and current Amazonian policies are clearly inadequate to prevent global warming and deforestation from tipping the forest into a savanna. It analyses the growing climate pressures jeopardising the Amazon's resilience; the erratic Brazilian, Bolivian, Colombian, Ecuadorian and Peruvian governance of the forest; and the failure of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) to establish long-term forest conservation policies in the region. The research demonstrates that the ‘savannisation hypothesis’ is potentially closer to reality than most debates in the social sciences assume and should be considered seriously. The commentary concludes by suggesting possible pathways for preventing the dieback of the Amazon. These are based on three strategic axes: the strengthening of the ACTO, the promotion of a technological revolution in the forest, and a progressive environmental diplomacy by the Amazonian countries.

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“…Найбільшу площу займають степи, понад 87% території області (Rehionalna dopovid…, 2015). Дослідження типологічного різноманіття (Tkach, Bondar, 2015;Bondar, 2016) та біологічного різноманіття лісових насаджень актуальне не тільки для України (Pasternak et al, 2011;Zibtsev et al, 2012), але й закордоном в Європі (Barbati et al, 2014;Kovač et al, 2016), США (Paula et al, 2017), Індії (Chandra et аl., 2010), Королівство Таїланд (Miki et al, 2017), Латвії (Rendenieks et al, 2015), Німеччини (Weber, 2017), Бразилії (Kröger, 2017) та інших державах. З метою підвищення рівня життя людей та збереження довкілля планети необхідно вести лісове господарство на засадах сталого розвитку, яке забезпечувало безперервність виконання лісами еколого-економічних функцій.…”

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Типологічне Різноманіття Лісів На Водозборі Річки Сіверський Донець На Території Луганської Області

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Typological analysis of watershed forests of the Seversky Donets River was carried out on the basis of forest management data with electronic databases of "Ukrderzhlisproekt" Production Association. More than 27 types of forest were analyzed with total size of 228.2 thousand hectares. The classification of forest growth conditions, forest types and tree species on the left and right banks of the Seversky Donets River was done for the Luhansk region. We determined that the forest fund of the Luhansk region consists from the oak forests -46.4 %, sudubrava -21.1 %, conifer forest -17.5 %. The proportion of coniferous forests makes up to 15.0 % of total forest area. We calculated that the area of common oak and common pine is 86.9 and 70.9·10 3 ha respectively. The following types of forests are prevailing: dry birchbark-marple sudubrava (30.8 %), fresh oak-pine sudubrava (13.1%), dry Tatarian maple sudubrava (12.9%), and fresh pine forest (10.6%). In the forest area of the Luhansk region we registered 70 tree species, of which 19 species -in oak-pine forest; 37 -in conifer forest; 55 -in sudubrava; 59 -in oak forest. By categories of protection the recreation forests (51.7 %) and protective forests (42.0 %) are the dominant. The forests of nature protection, forests of scientific, historical and cultural significance have only 6.4 % from the total forest area. The structure of forests by age groups was: middle-aged forests -41.3 %, young growths -17.8 %, ripening forests -15.5 %, mature forests -16.7 %, and old growth forests -13.3 % from total forest area of Luhansk region.

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Inter-sectoral determinants of forest policy: the power of deforesting actors in post-2012 Brazil

Cited by 46 publications

References 26 publications

Understanding smallholders’ intended deforestation behavior in the Brazilian Cerrado following environmental registry

Understanding smallholders’ intended deforestation behavior in the Brazilian Cerrado following environmental registry

Close to a Tipping Point? The Amazon and the Challenge of Sustainable Development under Growing Climate Pressures

Типологічне Різноманіття Лісів На Водозборі Річки Сіверський Донець На Території Луганської Області

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