Agribusiness Opportunity Costs and Environmental Legal Protection: Investigating Trade-Off on Hotspot Preservation in the State of So Paulo, Brazil
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UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO |
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20/10/2012
20/10/2012
2009
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Resumo |
Prior to deforestation, So Paulo State had 79,000 km(2) covered by Cerrado (Brazilian savanna) physiognomies, but today less than 8.5% of this biodiversity hotspot remains, mostly in private lands. The global demand for agricultural goods has imposed strong pressure on natural areas, and the economic decisions of agribusiness managers are crucial to the fate of Cerrado domain remaining areas (CDRA) in Brazil. Our aim was to investigate the effectiveness of Brazilian private protected areas policy, and to propose a feasible alternative to promote CDRA protection. This article assessed the main agribusiness opportunity costs for natural areas preservation: the land use profitability and the arable land price. The CDRA percentage and the opportunity costs were estimated for 349 municipal districts of So Paulo State through secondary spatial data and profitability values of 38 main agricultural products. We found that Brazilian private protected areas policy fails to preserve CDRA, although the values of non-compliance fines were higher than average opportunity costs. The scenario with very restrictive laws on private protected areas and historical high interest rates allowed us to conceive a feasible cross compliance proposal to improve environmental and agricultural policies. CNPq - Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) |
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ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, v.44, n.2, p.346-355, 2009 0364-152X http://producao.usp.br/handle/BDPI/27381 10.1007/s00267-009-9322-8 |
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eng |
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SPRINGER |
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Environmental Management |
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Palavras-Chave | #Agricultural opportunity costs #Cerrado hotspot conservation #Private protected areas policy #Cross compliance #SERVICE PAYMENTS #BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION #ECONOMIC-BENEFITS #CROSS-COMPLIANCE #IMPACT #EFFICIENCY #GREEN #LAND #EXPERIENCE #PRIORITIES #Environmental Sciences |
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