Influence of Environmental Governance on Deforestation in Municipalities of the Brazilian Amazon

Lilian Fernandes Oliveira Dias, David Valentim Dias and William Ernest Magnusson

PLOS ONE, 2015, vol. 10, issue 7, 1-12

Abstract: It has been argued that measuring governance at scales smaller than global could be an important management tool. However, current studies are conducted on a global scale and use expensive methods. In the present study, we assess whether the reported governance of Amazonian municipalities is related to reductions in deforestation. Economic activity (EA) affected general governance (G) positively (G = 0.81 +1.19 * EA, F1, 98 = 77.36, p

Date: 2015
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