Increased Amazon carbon emissions mainly from decline in law enforcement

LV Gatti, CL Cunha, L Marani, HLG Cassol… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The Amazon forest carbon sink is declining, mainly as a result of land-use and climate
change,,–. Here we investigate how changes in law enforcement of environmental …

[HTML][HTML] Transparency and sustainability in global commodity supply chains

TA Gardner, M Benzie, J Börner, E Dawkins, S Fick… - World Development, 2019 - Elsevier
Over the last few decades rapid advances in processes to collect, monitor, disclose, and
disseminate information have contributed towards the development of entirely new modes of …

Brazil's Amazon soy moratorium reduced deforestation

R Heilmayr, LL Rausch, J Munger, HK Gibbs - Nature Food, 2020 - nature.com
Between 2004 and 2012, multiple policies contributed to one of the great conservation
successes of the twenty-first century—an 84% decrease in the rate of Brazilian Amazon …

Emerging evidence on the effectiveness of tropical forest conservation

J Börner, K Baylis, E Corbera, D Ezzine-de-Blas… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
The PLOS ONE Collection “Measuring forest conservation effectiveness” brings together a
series of studies that evaluate the effectiveness of tropical forest conservation policies and …

Brazil's conservation reform and the reduction of deforestation in Amazonia

TAP West, PM Fearnside - Land use policy, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal
Amazon (PPCDAm), launched in 2004, promoted a drastic conservation reform in Brazil. To …

Overstated carbon emission reductions from voluntary REDD+ projects in the Brazilian Amazon

TAP West, J Börner, EO Sills… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) has gained
international attention over the past decade, as manifested in both United Nations policy …

A review of global-local-global linkages in economic land-use/cover change models

TW Hertel, TAP West, J Börner… - Environmental Research …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Global change drivers of land-use/cover change (LUCC) like population dynamics,
economic development, and climate change are increasingly important to local sustainability …

Mainstreaming impact evaluation in nature conservation

K Baylis, J Honey‐Rosés, J Börner… - Conservation …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
An important part of conservation practice is the empirical evaluation of program and policy
impacts. Understanding why conservation programs succeed or fail is essential for …

[HTML][HTML] Intensification in agriculture-forest frontiers: Land use responses to development and conservation policies in Brazil

RD Garrett, I Koh, EF Lambin, YP De Waroux… - Global Environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
Deforestation associated with agricultural expansion, particularly that of extensive cattle
ranching, remains a pressing challenge for sustainable development and climate mitigation …

[HTML][HTML] Law enforcement and deforestation: Lessons for Indonesia from Brazil

L Tacconi, RJ Rodrigues, A Maryudi - Forest policy and economics, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Government of Indonesia has committed to reducing emissions from
deforestation and forest degradation. However, the country suffers from one of the most …