@article{Ferreira:277084,
      recid = {277084},
      author = {Ferreira,  J.B. De Souza Filho and De Faria,  V. Guidotti  and Guedes Pinto, L.F. and Sparovek, G.},
      title = {Economic and Social Impacts of Deforestation reduction in  Brazil},
      address = {2018-07},
      year = {2018},
      abstract = {In this paper, we analyze the economic and social impacts  of different deforestation reduction scenarios in Brazil,  using a detailed inter-regional, bottom-up, dynamic general  equilibrium model. We build three deforestation scenarios  using detailed information on land use in Brazil, from  satellite imagery that comprises deforestation patterns and  land use by state and biome. This information includes  agricultural suitability of soil, by biome and state, as  well as the classification of land between private and  public lands. Results show, for the period under  consideration, low aggregate economic losses of reducing  deforestation in all scenarios, but those losses are much  higher in the agricultural frontier states. Reducing  deforestation has also a negative impact on welfare (as  measured by household consumption), affecting  disproportionately more the poorest households, both at  national level and particularly in the frontier regions,  both by the income and expenditure composition effects. We  conclude that although important from an environmental  point of view, those social losses must be taken into  account for the policy to get general support in Brazil.  

Acknowledgement :  The authors are grateful to Instituto  Escolhas for funding this research.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/277084},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.277084},
}