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The Brazilian intergovernmental fiscal transfer for conservation: a successful but self-limiting incentive program

Patricia G.C. Ruggiero, Alexander Pfaff, Paula Pereda, Elizabeth Nicholas, Jean Paul Metzger Ecological Economics 191 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107219 Brazil’s ecological intergovernmental fiscal transfer (ICMS-E) is a…

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Investing in local capacity to respond to a federal environmental mandate: forest & economic impacts of the Green Municipality Program in the Brazilian Amazon

Erin Sills, Alexander Pfaff, Luiza Andrade, Justin Kirkpatrick, Rebecca Dickson World Development 129:104891 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.104891 Over the past decade, the Brazilian federal government has offered a…

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Impacts of protected areas vary with the level of government: comparing avoided deforestation across agencies in the Brazilian Amazon

Diego Herrera, Alexander Pfaff, Juan Robalino Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1802877116 Protected areas (PAs) are the leading tools to conserve forests. However,…

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