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Estimativa Da Curva De Kuznets Ambiental Para A Amazônia Legal

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  • Santos, Ricardo Bruno Nascimento dos
  • Diniz, Marcelo Bentes
  • Diniz, Marcia Juca Teixeira
  • Rivero, Sergio Luiz De Medeiros
  • Oliveira Junior, Jose Nilo de

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O presente trabalho investigou a hipótese da Curva Ambiental de Kuznets – CAK, diante da controvérsia que existe na atual literatura entre o crescimento econômico e impactos ambientais. A principal contribuição do artigo é apresentar um estudo de caso voltado para uma das regiões mais importantes no debate ambiental que é a Amazônia Legal. A questão em si, que não está determinada teoricamente, e apresenta diversos resultados empíricos contraditórios, incorpora a idéia de verificar se o crescimento econômico gera algum tipo de proteção automática ao meio ambiente, e até ao desenvolvimento sustentável. Com isso, o presente trabalho procura contribuir para esse debate, trazendo evidências empíricas inéditas a âmbito regional. Utilizando como variável dependente a área desmatada em hectares e como variável dependente o PIB per capita dos 792 municípios da Amazônia Legal, foi testada empiricamente qual a relação existente nessa região entre crescimento econômico e impacto ambiental. Há evidencias para curvas ambientais com formato quadrático, aceitando-se assim as CAK originais, porém com modelos pouco representativos.---------------------------------------------This study investigated the hypothesis of the Environmental Kuznets Curve - EKC, given the controversy that exists in the current literature between economic growth and environmental impacts. This work delayed to approach an analysis on the environmental aspect, and especially, for case study as one of the most important region in the environmental debate that is the Legal Amazon. The question itself, which is not theoretically determined, and presents several contradictory empirical results, and see if economic growth generates some kind of automatic protection to the environment and to sustainable development. Thus, the present work seeks to contribute for this debate, bringing empirical evidence unpublished a regional scope. Using as a dependent variable deforested area in hectares and as a dependent variable per capita GDP of 792 municipalities in the Legal Amazon, has been tested empirically what the relationship existing in the region between economic growth and environmental impact. There are evidences to environmental curves with quadratic form, accepting thereby the CAK originals, but with little models representative.

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  • Santos, Ricardo Bruno Nascimento dos & Diniz, Marcelo Bentes & Diniz, Marcia Juca Teixeira & Rivero, Sergio Luiz De Medeiros & Oliveira Junior, Jose Nilo de, 2008. "Estimativa Da Curva De Kuznets Ambiental Para A Amazônia Legal," 46th Congress, July 20-23, 2008, Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil 113968, Sociedade Brasileira de Economia, Administracao e Sociologia Rural (SOBER).
  • Handle: RePEc:ags:sbrfsr:113968
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.113968
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    1. Terciane Sabadini Carvalho & Eduardo Almeida, 2011. "The Globalenvironmental Kuznets Curve And The Kyoto Protocol," Anais do XXXVII Encontro Nacional de Economia [Proceedings of the 37th Brazilian Economics Meeting] 183, ANPEC - Associação Nacional dos Centros de Pós-Graduação em Economia [Brazilian Association of Graduate Programs in Economics].
    2. Barros , Pedro Henrique Batista de & Stege , Alysson Luiz, 2019. "Deforestation and human development in the Brazilian agricultural frontier: an environmental Kuznets curve for MATOPIBA," Revista Brasileira de Estudos Regionais e Urbanos, Associação Brasileira de Estudos Regionais e Urbanos (ABER), vol. 13(2), pages 161-182, October.

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