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SUBMITTER: Baragwanath K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7456116 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20200811 34
In this paper, we draw on common-pool resource theory to argue that indigenous territories, when granted full property rights, will be effective at curbing deforestation. Using satellite data, we test the effect of property rights on deforestation between 1982 and 2016. In order to identify causal effects, we combine a regression discontinuity design with the orthogonal timing of homologation. We find that observations inside territories with full property rights show a significant decrease in d ...[more]