The effect of the beef zero deforestation commitment in the Brazilian Amazon: A spatial panel data analysis

IF 6.6 2区经济学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-04 DOI:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108503

Diogo Vallim, Alexandre Leichsenring

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Abstract

This paper investigates the effects of the Beef Zero Deforestation Commitment (Beef ZDC) on deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon. Using a spatial panel data regression model, the study analyzes data from 280 municipalities across three states of the Brazilian Amazon at three time points. The outcome variable, created through a geoprocessing technique, reflects the intensity of slaughterhouse activity under the zero-deforestation commitment within municipal jurisdictional limits. The findings show that higher Beef ZDC intensity is significantly associated with reductions in deforestation, with a 1 % increase in Beef ZDC intensity leading to a total 0.32 % decrease in deforestation, accounting for both direct and indirect effects. The direct effect means reductions within the municipality, likely due to stricter environmental standards and enhanced monitoring, while the indirect effect stems from spatial dependence, where actions in one municipality affect neighboring areas. Additionally, the study reveals a spatial autoregressive effect, where deforestation in one municipality triggers significant further deforestation in adjacent areas. The analysis underscores the importance of incorporating spatial dependence, using the adequate unit of analysis and considering local governance contexts, such as institutional arrangements, political economy factors, and organizational practices in investigating the outcomes of hybrid regulatory initiatives.

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Ecological Economics 环境科学-环境科学

CiteScore

12.00

自引率

5.70%

发文量

313

审稿时长

6 months

期刊介绍： Ecological Economics is concerned with extending and integrating the understanding of the interfaces and interplay between "nature''s household" (ecosystems) and "humanity''s household" (the economy). Ecological economics is an interdisciplinary field defined by a set of concrete problems or challenges related to governing economic activity in a way that promotes human well-being, sustainability, and justice. The journal thus emphasizes critical work that draws on and integrates elements of ecological science, economics, and the analysis of values, behaviors, cultural practices, institutional structures, and societal dynamics. The journal is transdisciplinary in spirit and methodologically open, drawing on the insights offered by a variety of intellectual traditions, and appealing to a diverse readership. Specific research areas covered include: valuation of natural resources, sustainable agriculture and development, ecologically integrated technology, integrated ecologic-economic modelling at scales from local to regional to global, implications of thermodynamics for economics and ecology, renewable resource management and conservation, critical assessments of the basic assumptions underlying current economic and ecological paradigms and the implications of alternative assumptions, economic and ecological consequences of genetically engineered organisms, and gene pool inventory and management, alternative principles for valuing natural wealth, integrating natural resources and environmental services into national income and wealth accounts, methods of implementing efficient environmental policies, case studies of economic-ecologic conflict or harmony, etc. New issues in this area are rapidly emerging and will find a ready forum in Ecological Economics.