Spatial spillover effects from agriculture drive deforestation in Mato Grosso, Brazil.

ABSTRACT: Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest is a threat to global climate, biodiversity, and many other ecosystem services. In order to address this threat, an understanding of the drivers of deforestation processes is required. Spillover effects and factors that differ across locations and over time play important roles in these processes. They are largely disregarded in applied research and thus in the design of evidence-based policies. In this study, we model connectivity between regions and consider heterogeneous effects to gain more accurate quantitative insights into the inherent complexity of deforestation. We investigate the impacts of agriculture in Mato Grosso, Brazil, for the period 2006-2017 considering spatial spillovers and varying impacts over time and space. Spillovers between m

SUBMITTER: Kuschnig N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8575964 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature