Uma nova era no combate ao desmatamento na Amazônia brasileira: oportunidades para melhorar a efetividade de políticas públicas

The document analyzes the effectiveness of Brazil's anti-deforestation policies in the Amazon, noting that while an 83% reduction in annual deforestation was achieved between 2004 and 2012, progress has since stagnated. It argues that previous 'command and control' measures primarily targeted large landowners and critical frontiers, leaving smallholders and remote areas less addressed. The authors recommend shifting toward incentive-based policies for small farmers, adopting high-resolution radar monitoring to detect smaller clearings, and focusing on forest degradation rather than just total forest cover.

• Brazil achieved a significant reduction in annual deforestation in the Amazon of 83% between 2004 and 2012, which helped reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than one third.
• Contrary to recent claims, small farmers (properties under 100 hectares) are not the primary drivers of deforestation; they contributed only 12% of the total deforestation in the Brazilian Legal Amazon between 2004 and 2011.
• Large properties (over 500 hectares) were responsible for nearly half (47%) of the total deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon between 2004 and 2011, although their contribution fell more rapidly than that of smallholders due to targeted law enforcement.
• Forests in areas dominated by small farmers generally exhibit better ecological conditions, with lower levels of fragmentation and degradation from fire and logging compared to large properties.
• Deforestation in remote areas of the Brazilian Amazon increased from 18% in 2004 to 23% in 2011, likely because government efforts focused on a small number of previously identified critical municipalities.
• Current monitoring systems may be failing to detect a growing proportion of deforestation occurring in smaller, dispersed patches that fall below the technical detection limits of current satellites.
• To reach the goal of reducing deforestation by 80% by 2020 compared to 1996-2005 levels, Brazil must bring the annual deforestation rate below 4,000 km2.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2014). Uma nova era no combate ao desmatamento na Amazônia brasileira: oportunidades para melhorar a efetividade de políticas públicas. https://www.sei.org/mediamanager/documents/Publications/SEI-PB-2014-Amazon-deforestation-Port.pdf

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Uma nova era no combate ao desmatamento na Amazônia brasileira: oportunidades para melhorar a efetividade de políticas públicas. 2014. https://www.sei.org/mediamanager/documents/Publications/SEI-PB-2014-Amazon-deforestation-Port.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2014uma, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Uma nova era no combate ao desmatamento na Amazônia brasileira: oportunidades para melhorar a efetividade de políticas públicas}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2014}, url = {https://www.sei.org/mediamanager/documents/Publications/SEI-PB-2014-Amazon-deforestation-Port.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }