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

This policy brief by the Stockholm Environment Institute evaluates the effectiveness of deforestation policies in the Brazilian Amazon, noting a significant reduction in deforestation from 2004 to 2012 followed by stagnation and a rise in 2013. The authors argue that while command-and-control measures successfully targeted large landowners, new incentive-based strategies are required to address deforestation by smallholders and in remote areas.

• Brazil achieved an 83% reduction in the annual deforestation rate in the Amazon between 2004 and 2012, which helped reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than one third.
• Deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon stabilized after 2009 and began to increase again in 2013, suggesting that existing policies have reached their limits of effectiveness.
• Contrary to some 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 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, though 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 priority 'critical' municipalities.
• The authors recommend shifting toward incentive-based policies for smallholders, adopting high-resolution radar monitoring to detect smaller patches of deforestation, and creating rewards for improving the condition of degraded forests rather than just maintaining forest cover.

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} }