Maria Bowman

TL;DR: Effectively implementing PAs in zones under high current or future anthropogenic threat offers high payoffs for reducing carbon emissions, and as a result should receive special attention in planning investments for regional conservation.

TL;DR: According to this analysis, these recent developments finally make feasible the end of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, which could result in a 2 to 5% reduction in global carbon emissions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use a spatially explicit rent model which incorporates the local effects of biophysical characteristics, infrastructure, land prices, and distance to markets and slaughterhouses to calculate 30-year Net Present Values (NPVs) of extensive cattle ranching across the Brazilian Amazon.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an economists' perspective on the factors which make diversified farming systems (DFS) economically attractive, or not so attractive, to farmers, and discuss the potential for and roadblocks to widespread adoption.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use data from a survey of 220 households to examine fire prevention and burning activities among traditional subsistence households in the Tapajos National Forest in Para, Brazil and find that economic variables such as the opportunity cost of household time, market conditions, and the hiring wage are important predictors of these decisions.