期刊
LAND USE POLICY
卷 59, 期 -, 页码 446-455出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.09.018
关键词
Brazilian Amazon; Deforestation; Socio-economic development; Environmental Kuznets curve; Boom-bust cycles; Environmental governance
资金
- French National Agency for Research (ANR) [ANR-11-BSH1-0003]
- University Sorbonne-Nouvelle Paris 3 for Post-doctoral Fellowship
- European Union [691053]
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-11-BSH1-0003] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
Socio-economic development in the Brazilian Amazon is currently reaching national averages although deforestation activity has been declining for a decade. As a consequence, recent studies rejected the widely agreed boom-and-bust development hypothesis that deforestation first generates an economic boom, which is then followed by a collapse as forest resources are depleted. Here, we confirm these studies that there is no boom-bust cycle and suggest that a new pattern of relationship between deforestation and socio-economic development has emerged following an environmental Kuznets curve (EKC). In this scenario, environmental degradation increases in the early stages of economic development and decreases in later stages as the economy develops and wellbeing increases. To validate this assumption, we conducted the first sub-municipal analysis of socio-economic development and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon for the 2000-2010 period. Our results confirm the emergence of an EKC relationship with a turning point beyond which socio-economic growth does not appear anymore to be a driver of deforestation. We also emphasize that areas subjected to active deforestation in 2010 present lower socio-economic indicators than stabilized areas, pointing to the precarious socio-economic situation of areas still undergoing active deforestation. We put these results in perspective by considering Brazilian efforts to ensure a transition in environmental governance with the objective of promoting land use sustainability through control of deforestation at the same time as supporting socio-economic development. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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