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Influence of Environmental Governance on Deforestation in Municipalities of the Brazilian Amazon
It has been argued that measuring governance at scales smaller than global could be an important management tool. However, current studies are conducted on a global scale and use expensive methods. In the present study, we assess whether the reported governance of Amazonian municipalities is related...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4514646/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26208282 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0131425 |
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author | Dias, Lilian Fernandes Oliveira Dias, David Valentim Magnusson, William Ernest |
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description | It has been argued that measuring governance at scales smaller than global could be an important management tool. However, current studies are conducted on a global scale and use expensive methods. In the present study, we assess whether the reported governance of Amazonian municipalities is related to reductions in deforestation. Economic activity (EA) affected general governance (G) positively (G = 0.81 +1.19 * EA, F1, 98 = 77.36, p < 0.001). Environmental governance (EG) was not affected significantly (p = 0.43) by deforestation before 2000 (PD), but increased significantly (p < 0.001) with general governance (G) (EG = -0.29 + 0.04 PD+0.98*OG, F2,97 = 42.6, p <0.001). Deforestation was not significantly related to environmental governance (p = 0.82). The only indirect effect of significant magnitude was the effect of the density of forest reserves on recent deforestation through deforestation before 2000, which was strongly negative (-0.49). It is possible to assess reported actions to promote municipal governance through official data. However, it is not enough to assume that general governance or environmental governance at the municipal level, as reflected in the official statistics, benefits environmental conservation. In fact, even at the level of nation states, at which most quantification of governance has been undertaken, it seems that the relationship between governance and environmental preservation is only an assumption, because we are aware of no study that supports that hypothesis quantitatively. |
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spelling | pubmed-45146462015-07-29 Influence of Environmental Governance on Deforestation in Municipalities of the Brazilian Amazon Dias, Lilian Fernandes Oliveira Dias, David Valentim Magnusson, William Ernest PLoS One Research Article It has been argued that measuring governance at scales smaller than global could be an important management tool. However, current studies are conducted on a global scale and use expensive methods. In the present study, we assess whether the reported governance of Amazonian municipalities is related to reductions in deforestation. Economic activity (EA) affected general governance (G) positively (G = 0.81 +1.19 * EA, F1, 98 = 77.36, p < 0.001). Environmental governance (EG) was not affected significantly (p = 0.43) by deforestation before 2000 (PD), but increased significantly (p < 0.001) with general governance (G) (EG = -0.29 + 0.04 PD+0.98*OG, F2,97 = 42.6, p <0.001). Deforestation was not significantly related to environmental governance (p = 0.82). The only indirect effect of significant magnitude was the effect of the density of forest reserves on recent deforestation through deforestation before 2000, which was strongly negative (-0.49). It is possible to assess reported actions to promote municipal governance through official data. However, it is not enough to assume that general governance or environmental governance at the municipal level, as reflected in the official statistics, benefits environmental conservation. In fact, even at the level of nation states, at which most quantification of governance has been undertaken, it seems that the relationship between governance and environmental preservation is only an assumption, because we are aware of no study that supports that hypothesis quantitatively. Public Library of Science 2015-07-24 /pmc/articles/PMC4514646/ /pubmed/26208282 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0131425 Text en © 2015 Dias et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Dias, Lilian Fernandes Oliveira Dias, David Valentim Magnusson, William Ernest Influence of Environmental Governance on Deforestation in Municipalities of the Brazilian Amazon |
title | Influence of Environmental Governance on Deforestation in Municipalities of the Brazilian Amazon |
title_full | Influence of Environmental Governance on Deforestation in Municipalities of the Brazilian Amazon |
title_fullStr | Influence of Environmental Governance on Deforestation in Municipalities of the Brazilian Amazon |
title_full_unstemmed | Influence of Environmental Governance on Deforestation in Municipalities of the Brazilian Amazon |
title_short | Influence of Environmental Governance on Deforestation in Municipalities of the Brazilian Amazon |
title_sort | influence of environmental governance on deforestation in municipalities of the brazilian amazon |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4514646/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26208282 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0131425 |
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