Áreas protegidas, embora críticas, não são suficientes para desacelerar o desmatamento na Amazônia

This policy brief by the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI/PUC-Rio) evaluates the effectiveness of protected areas—including conservation units and indigenous lands—in reducing deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. While the analysis finds that these areas effectively shield the forests within their boundaries, they have a negligible impact on aggregate deforestation levels because they tend to displace deforestation to unprotected regions.

• Protected areas in Brazil, comprising conservation units and indigenous lands, are effective at reducing deforestation locally within their borders, acting as a 'shield' against forest loss.
• Despite their local effectiveness, protected areas have an insignificant impact on the overall levels of deforestation in the Amazon, as they appear to shift deforestation activities to unprotected areas.
• A counterfactual analysis conducted by CPI/PUC-Rio for the period 2007 to 2014 suggests that total deforestation would have been nearly the same without protected territories, with a difference of only 43,801 hectares, or 1% of the actual deforested area.
• Between 2004 and 2014, Brazil significantly expanded its protected territories in the Amazon. Conservation units nearly doubled to 113 million hectares, and indigenous lands increased by 10 million hectares to reach a total of 107 million hectares.
• Following the implementation of the Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal Amazon (PPCDAm), the strategy for allocating protected areas shifted to include current and future deforestation risks, specifically targeting the 'Arc of Deforestation' (Arco do Desmatamento).
• The document recommends that territorial protection strategies be maintained and expanded but must be coordinated with complementary conservation policies to prevent the displacement of deforestation to unprotected regions.

APA

Assunção, J., & Gandour, C. (2020). Áreas protegidas, embora críticas, não são suficientes para desacelerar o desmatamento na Amazônia. Climate Policy Initiative. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/PB-Areas-Protegidas-2.pdf

Chicago

Assunção, Juliano, and Clarissa Gandour. Áreas protegidas, embora críticas, não são suficientes para desacelerar o desmatamento na Amazônia. Climate Policy Initiative, 2020. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/PB-Areas-Protegidas-2.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{assuno2020reas, author = {Assunção, Juliano and Gandour, Clarissa}, title = {{Áreas protegidas, embora críticas, não são suficientes para desacelerar o desmatamento na Amazônia}}, institution = {Climate Policy Initiative}, year = {2020}, month = may, url = {https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/PB-Areas-Protegidas-2.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }