Power plants and deforestation: recent evidence from the Amazon

dc.contributor.author	Assunção, Juliano
dc.contributor.author	Costa, Francisco
dc.contributor.author	Szerman, Dimitri
dc.date.accessioned	2020-06-17T14:14:37Z
dc.date.available	2020-06-17T14:14:37Z
dc.date.issued	2017
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10438/29295
dc.description.abstract	This paper estimates the impacts of the construction of the new HPPs built in the Brazilian Amazon between 2003 and 2011 on local deforestation patterns. We assemble a comprehensive geo-referenced dataset combining dams’ locations and characteristics with remote sensing data. We use the synthetic control method to identify the causal impact of the construction of each HPP on forest cover around the HPP site. We find that building plants does not always stimulate deforestation. While some HPP projects stimulate deforestation, others help to avoid it. Overall, we can attribute 14% of the observed deforestation in areas within 50 kilometers around the HPPs to the construction process.	por
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.subject	Amazônia	por
dc.title	Power plants and deforestation: recent evidence from the Amazon	por
dc.type	Article	eng
dc.subject.area	Economia	por
dc.contributor.unidadefgv	Demais unidades::RPCA	por
dc.subject.bibliodata	Usinas elétricas	por