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DOI | 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.12.025 |
Can Intensification of Cattle Ranching Reduce Deforestation in the Amazon? Insights From an Agent-based Social-Ecological Model | |
Mueller-Hansen, Finn1,2,3; Heitzig, Jobst1,2; Donges, Jonathan F.1,2,4; Cardoso, Manoel F.5; Dalla-Nora, Eloi L.6; Andrade, Pedro5; Kurths, Juergen1,2,3; Thonicke, Kirsten1,2 | |
2019-05-01 | |
发表期刊 | ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS |
ISSN | 0921-8009 |
EISSN | 1873-6106 |
出版年 | 2019 |
卷号 | 159页码:198-211 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Germany; Sweden; Brazil |
英文摘要 | Deforestation in the Amazon with its vast consequences for the ecosystem and climate is largely related to subsequent land use for cattle ranching. In addition to conservation policies, proposals to reduce deforestation include measures to intensify cattle ranching. However, the effects of land-use intensification on deforestation are debated in the literature. This paper introduces the abacra model, a stylized agent-based model to study the interplay of deforestation and the intensification of cattle ranching in the Brazilian Amazon. The model combines social learning and ecological processes with market dynamics. In the model, agents adopt either an extensive or semi-intensive strategy of cattle ranching based on the success of their neighbors. They earn their income by selling cattle on a stylized market. We present a comprehensive analysis of the model with statistical methods and find that it produces highly non-linear transient outcomes in dependence on key parameters like the rate of social interaction and elasticity of the cattle price. We show that under many environmental and economic conditions, intensification does not reduce deforestation rates and sometimes even has a detrimental effect on deforestation. Anti-deforestation policies incentivizing fast intensification can only lower deforestation rates under conditions in which the local cattle market saturates. |
英文关键词 | Amazon deforestation Land-use intensification Pasture management Social-ecological systems Agent-based modeling |
领域 | 资源环境 |
收录类别 | SCI-E ; SSCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000462105700019 |
WOS关键词 | LAND-USE CHANGE ; BRAZILIAN AMAZON ; FOREST TRANSITION ; DECISION-MAKING ; FRONTIER ; SYSTEMS ; POLICY ; CONSERVATION ; ENVIRONMENT ; AGRICULTURE |
WOS类目 | Ecology ; Economics ; Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Business & Economics |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/182675 |
专题 | 资源环境科学 |
作者单位 | 1.Potsdam Inst Climate Impact Res PIK, POB 60 12 03, D-14412 Potsdam, Germany; 2.Leibniz Assoc, POB 60 12 03, D-14412 Potsdam, Germany; 3.Humboldt Univ, Dept Phys, Newtonstr 15, D-12489 Berlin, Germany; 4.Stockholm Univ, Stockholm Resilience Ctr, Kraftriket 2B, S-11419 Stockholm, Sweden; 5.Natl Inst Space Res, Ctr Earth Syst Sci, Av Astronautas 1758, BR-12227010 Sao Jose Dos Campos, SP, Brazil; 6.TerraSAT Co, Dept Res & Appl Technol, Rua Pietro Cescon 1938, BR-99560000 Sarandi, RS, Brazil |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Mueller-Hansen, Finn,Heitzig, Jobst,Donges, Jonathan F.,et al. Can Intensification of Cattle Ranching Reduce Deforestation in the Amazon? Insights From an Agent-based Social-Ecological Model[J]. ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS,2019,159:198-211. |
APA | Mueller-Hansen, Finn.,Heitzig, Jobst.,Donges, Jonathan F..,Cardoso, Manoel F..,Dalla-Nora, Eloi L..,...&Thonicke, Kirsten.(2019).Can Intensification of Cattle Ranching Reduce Deforestation in the Amazon? Insights From an Agent-based Social-Ecological Model.ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS,159,198-211. |
MLA | Mueller-Hansen, Finn,et al."Can Intensification of Cattle Ranching Reduce Deforestation in the Amazon? Insights From an Agent-based Social-Ecological Model".ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS 159(2019):198-211. |
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