Changing patterns in deforestation avoidance by different protection types in the Brazilian Amazon.

ABSTRACT: This study quantifies how much deforestation was avoided due to legal protection in Legal Amazon in strictly protected areas, sustainable use areas, and indigenous lands. Only regions that are protected de jure (i.e., where deforestation is avoided due to effective laws rather than remoteness) were considered, so that the potential of legal protection could be better assessed. This is a cross-sectional approach, which allows comparisons in terms of avoided deforestation among the different types of protection in the same period. This study covers three different periods. Regions protected de jure were sampled by estimating a threshold distance at which deforestation starts to diminish and retaining all pixels up to that distance, and deforestation that has been avoided due to legal protect

SUBMITTER: Jusys T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5918171 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature