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Table of contents
General Introduction
1 Protected Areas as Conservation Tools in the Brazilian Amazon
1.1 State of the Brazilian Legal Amazon within Brazil
1.2 Protected Areas to Safeguard Biodiversity and Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
2 Challenges Associated with PA Designation and Maintenance
2.1 Conflicts over Land-Use and Location Bias
2.2 Have Protected Areas Been Effective?
2.2.1 Methodological Challenges
2.2.2 Summary of Main Empirical Results
3 Protected Area Downgrading Downsizing and Degazettement
3.1 Definition, Description and Extent in the Brazilian Amazon
3.2 PADDD as an outcome of the conservation-development trade-off in the Brazilian Amazon?
Chapter 1: What drives the Erasure of PAs? Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon
Chapter 2: Does the Selective Erasure of Protected Areas Raise Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon?
Chapter 3: Who benefits from PADDD in the Brazilian amazon?
4 References
1 Chapter 1 What Drives the Erasure of Protected Areas? Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon
1 Introduction
2 Agency Perspectives on PA Size Reductions
2.1 Agency Benefits/Costs from Reducing Enforced PAs
2.1.2 Environment Agency (E)
2.1.3 Tradeoffs
2.2 Allowing for Illegal Environmental Damage in PAs
2.2.1.1 Probabilities of Illegal Activities
2.2.2 Implications for Agencies from Illegal Activities
3 Data & Empirical Strategy
3.1 Data
3.1.1 Scope & Observational Units
3.1.2 Dependent Variable (PADDD)
3.1.3 Independent Variables
3.2 Empirical Strategy
4 Results
4.1 Descriptive Statistics
4.2 Deforestation inside PAs
4.3 Drivers of PA Size Reductions
4.4 Drivers of PA Size Reductions – Robustness Checks
5 Discussion
6 References
2 Chapter 2 Does the Selective Erasure of Protected Areas Raise Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon?
1 Introduction
2 Historical Background & Conceptual Model
2.1 Deforestation & Forest Protection in the Brazilian Amazon
2.2 Impacts of Protection & PA size reductions
2.2.1 Deforestation Baselines & PA Impacts By Location
2.2.2 Locations & Impacts of PA size reductions
3 Empirical Approach
3.1 Impact Estimation: matching both before & after erasures of protected areas
3.2 Data
3.2.1 Units of Observation
3.2.2 Variables
3.3 Method
3.3.1 Nearest-neighbour matching
3.3.2 Match Quality
3.3.3 Adding Temporal Analyses
3.4 PA Subsets: varying in expected impacts
4 Results
4.1 Descriptive Statistics
4.1.1
4.1.1 Protection Subsets vs. Unprotected (in terms of 2001-2008 deforestation)
