{"id":2004,"date":"2007-01-03T20:23:28","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T20:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexpfaff.com\/?post_type=research-paper&#038;p=2004"},"modified":"2007-01-03T20:23:28","modified_gmt":"2007-01-03T20:23:28","slug":"road-investments-spatial-spillovers-and-deforestation-in-the-brazilian-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.sanford.duke.edu\/alexpfaff\/2007\/01\/03\/road-investments-spatial-spillovers-and-deforestation-in-the-brazilian-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Road Investments, Spatial Spillovers and Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"authors\">Alexander Pfaff, Juan Robalino, Robert Walker, Steven Aldrich, Marcellus Caldas, Eustaquio Reis, Stephen Perz, Claudio Bohrer, Eugenio Arima, William Laurance, Kathryn Kirby<\/div>\n<div class=\"published\">Journal of Regional Science 2007 volume 47, no. 1, 2007, pp. 109\u2013123<\/div>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.sanford.duke.edu\/alexpfaff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2007\/01\/JRS200747109-123.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.sanford.duke.edu\/alexpfaff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2016\/06\/pdf-icon-50x50-1.png\" alt=\"PDF link icon\" \/><\/a>Understanding the impact of road investments on deforestation is part of a complete evaluation of the expansion of infrastructure for development.We find evidence of spatial spillovers from roads in the Brazilian Amazon: deforestation rises in the census tracts that lack roads but are in the same county as and within 100 km of a tract with a new paved or unpaved road. At greater distances from the new roads the evidence is mixed, including negative coefficients of inconsistent significance between 100 and 300 km, and if anything, higher neighbor deforestation at distances over 300 km.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Pfaff, Juan Robalino, Robert Walker, Steven Aldrich, Marcellus Caldas, Eustaquio Reis, Stephen Perz, Claudio Bohrer, Eugenio Arima, William Laurance, Kathryn Kirby Journal of Regional Science 2007 volume 47, no. 1, 2007, pp. 109\u2013123 Understanding the impact of road investments on deforestation is part of a complete evaluation of the expansion of infrastructure for development.We find evidence of spatial spillovers from roads in the Brazilian Amazon: deforestation rises in the census tracts that lack roads but are in the same county as and within 100 km of a tract with a new paved or unpaved road. At greater distances from the new roads the evidence is mixed, including negative coefficients of inconsistent significance between 100 and 300 km, and if anything, higher neighbor deforestation at distances over 300 km. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,29,39,45],"tags":[79,146,151],"class_list":["post-2004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10","category-brazil","category-land-use-climate-mitigation","category-secondary-data","tag-deforestation","tag-roads","tag-spillovers","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Road Investments, Spatial Spillovers and Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon - 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