Monografia apresentada ao Departamento de Direito da Pontifícia Universidade
Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio).
Protected areas are effective on curbing fires in the Amazon
The assessment of whether protected areas (PAs) inhibit environmentally damaging fires is challenged by three sources of bias: (i) non-random site protection, (ii) influence of simultaneous land use and environmental changes, and (iii) unobservable time-invariant...