Publications

Was von Thünen right? Cattle intensification and deforestation in Brazil

Working paper by Francisco Pereira Fontes, Charles Palmer on 27 Jan 2017

This paper examines whether patterns of cattle intensification, deforestation, and pasture expansion in the Brazilian state of Rondonia are consistent with the land rent framework, in which location and distance to markets are key determinants of rents. A panel dataset of household lots, collected between 1996 and 2009, is used to test the hypothesis that […]

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Getting more ‘carbon bang’ for your ‘buck’ in Acre State, Brazil

Working paper by Charles Palmer, Luca Taschini on 31 Oct 2016

Acre State in Brazil is at the forefront of efforts to institutionalize jurisdictional-scale policies that aim to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+). Given limited REDD+ funds and … read more »

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Integrating mitigation and adaptation in climate and land use policies in Brazil: a policy document analysis

Working paper by Monica Di Gregorio, Leandra Fatorelli, Emilia Pramova, Peter May, Bruno Locatelli, Maria Brockhaus on 24 Feb 2016

This paper investigates climate policy integration and coherence in land use policies in Brazil. Unlike other policy analyses a key aim is to assess ‘internal policy coherence’ in the climate change domain, or the extent to which positive and negative interactions between mitigation and adaptation are taken into account in policy formulation. The paper is […]

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Technology and learning in a global MAC curve: evidence from the phase-out of ozone depleting substances

Working paper by David Grover on 1 Jan 2014

I estimate a marginal abatement cost (MAC) curve using detailed, project-level data from the global phase-out of ozone depleting substances (ODSs) across 145 low-income countries, including … read more »

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Dynamics of indirect land-use change: empirical evidence from Brazil

Working paper by Charles Palmer, Saraly Andrade de Sá, Salvatore Di Falco on 1 Mar 2012

The expansion of a given land use may affect deforestation directly if forests are cleared to free land for this use, or indirectly, via the displacement … read more »

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Cost-effective payments for reducing emissions from deforestation under uncertainty

Working paper by Charles Palmer, Luca Taschini on 1 Jan 2012

The paper analyses the implications of landowners’ option values in land allocation and derives policy recommendations for payments for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation … read more »

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Self-interested low-carbon growth in G-20 emerging markets

Research article by Cameron Hepburn on 19 May 2011

This article suggests that some or all G-20 Emerging Markets (GEMs = Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Korea, Mexico, South Africa, and Turkey) could seize the climate policy agenda … read more »

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Land use change and availability of ecosystem services in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

Research article by on 19 Jun 2010

The importance of quantifying existing ecosystem services, assessing the impacts of various land use decisions and ultimately evaluating the overall costs and benefits of different land use patterns having … read more »

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Technology transfer by CDM projects: a comparison of Brazil, China, India and Mexico.

Research article by Antoine Dechezleprêtre on 18 Feb 2009

In a companion paper [Dechezleprêtre, A., Glachant, M., Ménière, Y., 2008. The Clean Development Mechanism and the international diffusion of technologies: An empirical study, Energy Policy 36, 1273–1283], we … read more »

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