The Cost of Forest Preservation in the Brazilian Amazon: The "Arc of Deforestation"
We estimate the trade-off between agricultural production and forest preservation for the municipalities in Brazil's agricultural frontier, the so-called 'arc of deforestation,' using census and deforestation data for 2006. We use a nonparametric directional output distance function t...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Western Agricultural Economics Association
2019-09-01
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| Series: | Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics |
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| Online Access: | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/292328 |