Land-use expansion is linked to major sustainability concerns including climate change,
food security and biodiversity loss. This expansion is largely concentrated in so-called …

Brazil recently began granting timber concessions in public forests to promote sustainable
forest use. The effectiveness of this strategy hinges on the design and implementation of the …

Logging has been a much maligned feature of frontier development in the Amazon. Most
discussions ignore the fact that logging can be part of a renewable, environmentally benign …

Selective logging is a major contributor to the social, economic, and ecological dynamics of
Brazilian Amazonia. Logging activities have expanded from low-volume floodplain harvests …

The environmental sustainability of Brazilian public forests under a concession regime has
been the subject of controversy, highlighting the need for effective and continuous …

Although the regulations are imperfectly enforced, logging firms in the Brazilian Amazon are
subject to forest management regulations intended to reduce environmental damage and …

The roads of Brazilian Amazonia are often portrayed in a melodramatic fashion. For
decades, pictures have shown dirt paths, smoldering forest remains, poor people, and …

We use data from a survey of 2401 households living along the Transamazon highway to
study timber sales decisions of smallholders settling in Amazon native forests. We develop …

This chapter addresses the opening of Amazônia, which was driven in large part by the
construction and improvement of federal highways in a series of megaprojects. It focuses on …

We estimate economic cost functions for timber harvesting, transportation and milling in the
Brazilian Amazon using a 2003 sample of 527 firms in both new and older frontier locations …