Academic Journal
Election cycles affect deforestation within Brazil's Atlantic Forest
| العنوان: | Election cycles affect deforestation within Brazil's Atlantic Forest |
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| المؤلفون: | Ruggiero, Patricia G. C., Pfaff, Alexander, Nichols, Elizabeth, Rosa, Marcos, Metzger, Jean Paul |
| المصدر: | Conservation Letters ; volume 14, issue 5 ; ISSN 1755-263X 1755-263X |
| بيانات النشر: | Wiley |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| المجموعة: | Wiley Online Library (Open Access Articles via Crossref) |
| الوصف: | Policymakers’ incentives during election campaigns can lead to decisions that significantly affect deforestation. Yet this is rarely studied. For Brazil's Atlantic Forest, a highly biodiverse tropical forest, we link federal‐and‐state as well as municipal elections to annual deforestation between 1991 and 2014. Across 2253 municipalities, those with higher deforestation see a significant rise in deforestation during federal‐and‐state election years. Municipal election years raise deforestation for locations with lower deforestation, whereas all of these increases are accentuated when there is party alignment between different levels of government. This effect of election cycles has fallen over time, to date, yet that cannot be assumed to continue. Our results highlight the need to limit opportunistic behaviors that affect natural resources and the environment with implications for biodiversity, carbon storage, and other ecosystem services. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | English |
| DOI: | 10.1111/conl.12818 |
| الاتاحة: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/conl.12818 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/conl.12818 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/conl.12818 |
| Rights: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.772B9ECC |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.1111/conl.12818 |
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