Como DETER o Desmatamento na Amazônia?

The report finds that the implementation of the DETER satellite system, which allows for rapid identification of deforestation hotspots, was the primary driver of deforestation deceleration in the Brazilian Amazon during the 2000s. By enabling Ibama to focus law enforcement and monitoring more precisely, these command-and-control policies prevented the loss of approximately 59,500 km² of forest between 2007 and 2011. The analysis indicates that these conservation efforts did not negatively impact local agricultural production and provided significant monetary gains when considering the value of carbon retention.

• The implementation of the Real-Time Deforestation Detection System (DETER) was the primary driver for the reduction of deforestation in the Amazon during the 2000s, as it allowed for the frequent and rapid identification of deforestation hotspots using satellite data.
• Command-and-control policies based on DETER prevented the deforestation of more than 59,500 km² of the Amazon forest between 2007 and 2011; without these policy changes, deforestation would have been 59% higher.
• In a hypothetical scenario where no fines were applied in any municipality within the Amazon Biome from 2007 to 2011, it is estimated that over 164,000 km² of forest would have been deforested.
• The cost-benefit analysis suggests that the command-and-control efforts are highly efficient; any carbon price above 0.76 USD/tCO2 would offset the costs of monitoring and law enforcement by Ibama and INPE.
• There is no evidence of a trade-off between forest conservation and economic growth, as the number of fines applied by Ibama in a municipality did not affect its agricultural production.
• The impact of DETER-based command-and-control policies is significantly larger than that of other conservation policies implemented under the PPCDAm.

APA

Assunção, J., Gandour, C., & Rocha, R. (2013). Como DETER o Desmatamento na Amazônia? Climate Policy Initiative. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Como-DETER-o-Desmatamento-na-Amazonia-O-Impacto-da-Mudanca-na-Politica-de-Comando-e-Controle-Sumario-Executivo1.pdf

Chicago

Assunção, Juliano, Clarissa Gandour, and Romero Rocha. Como DETER o Desmatamento na Amazônia? Climate Policy Initiative, 2013. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Como-DETER-o-Desmatamento-na-Amazonia-O-Impacto-da-Mudanca-na-Politica-de-Comando-e-Controle-Sumario-Executivo1.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{assuno2013como, author = {Assunção, Juliano and Gandour, Clarissa and Rocha, Romero}, title = {{Como DETER o Desmatamento na Amazônia?}}, institution = {Climate Policy Initiative}, year = {2013}, month = may, url = {https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Como-DETER-o-Desmatamento-na-Amazonia-O-Impacto-da-Mudanca-na-Politica-de-Comando-e-Controle-Sumario-Executivo1.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }