ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023
Collective property rights lead to secondary forest growth in the Brazilian Amazon.
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- A meta-analysis of carbon losses and gains from tropical moist forest degradation and regeneration.Science advances · 2026Pooled it
- The Effects of Land Management Policies on the Environment and People in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review.Campbell systematic reviews · 2026Review
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- PROTOCOL: The Effects of Land Management Policies on the Environment and People in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review.Campbell systematic reviews · 2025Article
- Indigenous territories and protected areas are crucial for ecosystem connectivity in the Amazon basin.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- The pan-tropical age distribution of regenerating tropical moist forest.Nature ecology & evolution · 2025Article
- Navigating data challenges in socioeconomic impact assessments of conservation regimes.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2025Review
- Ecological change increases malaria risk in the Brazilian Amazon.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Collective property rights lead to secondary forest growth in the Brazilian Amazon.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
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Abstract
Forests serve a crucial role in our fight against climate change. Secondary forests provide important potential for conservation of biodiversity and climate change mitigation. In this paper, we explore whether collective property rights in the form of indigenous territories (ITs) lead to higher rates of secondary forest growth in previously deforested areas. We exploit the timing of granting of property rights, the geographic boundaries of ITs and two different methods, regression discontinuity design and difference-in-difference, to recover causal estimates. We find strong evidence that indigenous territories with secure tenure not only reduce deforestation inside their lands but also lead to higher secondary forest growth on previously deforested areas. After receiving full property rights, land inside ITs displayed higher secondary forest growth than land outside ITs, with an estimated effect of 5% using our main RDD specification, and 2.21% using our difference-in-difference research design. Furthermore, we estimate that the average age of secondary forests was 2.2 y older inside ITs with secure tenure using our main RDD specification, and 2.8 y older when using our difference-in-difference research design. Together, these findings provide evidence for the role that collective property rights can play in the push to restore forest ecosystems.
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