Deforestation and local sustainable development in Brazilian Legal Amazonia: an exploratory analysis

We focus here on deforestation and human development dynamics among 211 small and medium-sized municipalities (in terms of population) in the Amazonian arc of deforestation, Brazil. First, we construct a typology of municipalities through principal component analysis and cluster analysis. Using this...

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Published inEcology and society Vol. 23; no. 2; p. 30
Main Authors Sathler, Douglas, Adamo, Susana B., Lima, Everton E. C.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Ottawa Resilience Alliance 01.06.2018
Subjects
Amazonia
Cluster analysis
Complementarity
Conservation
Deforestation
Demographics
Economic conditions
Economic development
Forest conservation
Forest management
Forests
Internalization
Local government
local sustainable development
Migration
Migration patterns
Multivariate analysis
multivariate methods
Municipalities
Population growth
Principal components analysis
public policy
Regional development
Socioeconomic factors
Sustainable development
Typology
Brazil
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Summary:We focus here on deforestation and human development dynamics among 211 small and medium-sized municipalities (in terms of population) in the Amazonian arc of deforestation, Brazil. First, we construct a typology of municipalities through principal component analysis and cluster analysis. Using this typology, we seek to identify changing deforestation frontiers in the study area based not only on forest loss levels, but also on sets of socioeconomic and demographic elements associated with human development. We find four well-defined macro-deforestation frontiers that exhibit distinct interactions between forest loss and human development levels. Our results show different levels of demographic and economic pressures in these frontiers while revealing some important trends such as the internalization of investments and demographic growth in the arc of deforestation. In addition, population growth and inmigration and out-migration patterns in the explored municipalities suggest a demographic complementarity among frontiers. Finally, we explore implications for public policies seeking to advance forest recovery and long-term conservation through sustainable development growth at the local and regional levels.
ISSN:1708-3087
1708-3087
DOI:10.5751/ES-10062-230230