Agriculture and development transform forest ecosystems to human‐modified landscapes.
Decades of research in ecology have generated myriad concepts for the appropriate …

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 …

Abstract Payments for Environmental Services (PES) constitute an innovative economic
intervention to counteract the global loss of biodiversity and ecosystem functions. In theory …

Brazil's Soy Moratorium (SoyM) was the first voluntary zero-deforestation agreement
implemented in the tropics and set the stage for supply-chain governance of other …

Soy has become one of the world's most important agroindustrial commodities–serving as
the nexus for the production of food, animal feed, fuel and hundreds of industrial products …

Abstract The Government of Indonesia has committed to reducing emissions from
deforestation and forest degradation. However, the country suffers from one of the most …

Fake controversies have influenced policy making on health and environmental issues for
decades, resulting in major implementation setbacks worldwide. As a case study, in this …

Annual deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon fell by 77% between 2004 and 2011, yet
have stabilized since 2009 at 5,000–7,000 km2. We provide the first submunicipality …

We study Brazil's recent use of satellite technology to overcome law enforcement
shortcomings resulting from weak institutional environments. DETER is a system that …

The 2012 Brazilian Forest Code governs the fate of forests and savannas on Brazil's 394
Mha of privately owned lands. The government claims that a new national land registry …