Working Papers

• The Value of Tropical Forests to Hydropower

  June 24, 2024

  Brazil, Brazil Policy Center
• Cutting Special Interests by the Roots: Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon

  Arthur Bragança and Ricardo Dahis

  July 9, 2021

  Brazil, Brazil Policy Center
• DETERring Deforestation in the Amazon: Environmental Monitoring and Law Enforcement

  Juliano Assunção and Clarissa Gandour

  November 4, 2019

  Brazil, Brazil Policy Center
• The Forest Awakens: Amazon Regeneration and Policy Spillover

  Juliano Assunção and Clarissa Gandour

  October 1, 2019

  Brazil, Brazil Policy Center
• The Deforestation Menace: Do Protected Territories Actually Shield Forests?

  Juliano Assunção and Clarissa Gandour

  September 3, 2018

  Brazil, Brazil Policy Center

  The paper tests whether legal territorial protection grants actual protection against advancing deforestation. Using a measure of neighboring clearing activity to capture local deforestation risk, the analysis compares forest clearing outcomes in unprotected and protected territories under equivalent deforestation pressures.