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307359693007.Pdf Acta Scientiarum. Human and Social Sciences ISSN: 1679-7361 ISSN: 1807-8656 [email protected] Universidade Estadual de Maringá Brasil Steingraber, Ronivaldo; Kanoppa, Ana Paula; Caetano, Janaína Fidelis Environmental services as an endogenous development strategy: an alternative to deforestation in the state of Acre, Brazil Acta Scientiarum. Human and Social Sciences, vol. 40, no. 2, 2018 Universidade Estadual de Maringá Brasil DOI: https://doi.org/10.4025/actascihumansoc.v40i2.36473 Available in: https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=307359693007 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System Redalyc More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America and the Caribbean, Spain and Journal's webpage in redalyc.org Portugal Project academic non-profit, developed under the open access initiative Acta Scientiarum http://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/acta ISSN on-line: 1807-8656 Doi: 10.4025/actascihumansoc .v40i2.36473 ECONOMIA Environmental services as an endogenous development strategy: an alternative to deforestation in the state of Acre, Brazil Ronivaldo Steingraber1*, Ana Paula Kanoppa2 and Janaína Fidelis Caetano2 1Departamento de Economia e Relações Internacionais, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Rua Engenheiro Agronômico Andrei Cristian Ferreira, s/n., 88040-900, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil. 2Programa de Pós-Graduação em Desenvolvimento Regional, Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil. *Author for correspondence. E-mail: [email protected] ABSTRACT. This paper studies the economic actors in the Amazonian deforestation in the State of Acre, Brazil. After a discussion on deforestation causes and its impacts, we propose a development strategy built on forest conservation, as the conservation of the Amazon biome. We conclude that environmental services can be an income-generating alternative for local populations, thereby contributing to the economic development of the State, in accordance with the principles of social equity and environmental protection, especially in new economic sectors, which are related to increased deforestation rate, however, the opportunity costs of these services are higher than those of cattle ranching. To get at this conclusion, it was estimated a linear model by Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) with the annual deforestation rate of the State of Acre between 2000 and 2011 as a dependent variable according to participation of primary sectors; the estimated results indicate the cattle ranching, among others economic activities, as the main cause of deforestation. Keywords: Amazon Forest; environmental services; economic sectors. Serviços ambientais como estratégia de desenvolvimento endógeno: uma alternativa para o desmatamento no estado do Acre, Brasil RESUMO. Este artigo estuda os atores econômicos no desmatamento Amazônico no estado do Acre, Brasil. Depois da discussão sobre as causas do desmatamento e seus impactos, propôem-se uma estratégia de desenvolvimento baseada na conservação florestal, como a manutenção do Bioma Amazônico. Conclui- se que os serviços ambientais podem ser uma alternativa de geração de renda para a população local, contribuindo para o desenvolvimento econômico do estado, de acordo com os princípios de equidade social e proteção ambiental, especialmente nos novos setores econômicos, os quais estão relacionados com o aumento da taxa de desmatamento, entretanto, os custos de oportunidade destes serviços são mais altos do que os da pecuária. Para chegar a esta conclusão, foi estimado um modelo linear por Mínimos Quadrados Ordinários (MQO) com a taxa annual de desmatamento do estado do Acre entre 2000 e 2011 como variável dependente, como função da participação dos setores primários, os resultados estimados mostram que a pecuária, entre outras atividades econômicas, é a principal causadora do desmatamento. Palavras-chave: Floresta Amazônica; serviços ambientais; setores econômicos. Introduction However, about 13 million hectares of forest per The Amazon region is one of the largest year are converted into other land uses and, as a ecosystems in the world and plays a key role in result, end up contributing one-fifth of global initiatives to prevent climate change. Forests can carbon dioxide emissions, making land-cover change provide many other benefits that are important to the second largest contributor to global warming the well-being of human beings. It is a known fact (Parker, Mitchell, Trivedi, & Mardas, 2009). that forests offer multiple environmental services, The causes of deforestation are numerous. including the supply of raw materials, food, fuel and Generally, the literature indicates the agriculture shelter; also, microorganisms and vegetation cover expansion as the main factor (Barbier & Burgess, interact in the ecosystem to purify air and water, 2011). This implies economic factors among the regulate climate and help in the recycling of leading causes of deforestation; Hargrave and Kis- nutrients and waste. Without forests, hence, in the Katos (2013) found a relationship between absence of these goods and other ecosystem services, Amazonian deforestation and the wood prices and life as we know would not be possible. agriculture products. Acta Scientiarum. Human and Social Sciences, v. 40(2), e36473, 2018 Page 2 of 9 Steingraber et al. Structural changes are reported in Angelsen and The establishment of a military dictatorship in Kaimowitz (1999) with positive impact over Brazil in 1964 led to the rise of a series of deforestation rate. These structural changes are road developmental policies that sought to insert the construction, poverty, shortage of off-farm country in the global capitalist system by means of a employment, besides economic factors, as wages, national modernization project (Scarcello & Bidone, wood and agricultural imput prices, household 2007). At that moment, Acre’s economy, primarily income levels, technical changes, and economic based on rubber-tapping and nut-gathering, was in growth are related with the increased deforestation crisis, and the State was selected to become a center rate. The government has responsibility over the of extensive cattle ranching in the Amazon region. Brazilian Amazon deforestation, introducing tax As stated by Duarte (1987), in view of this situation incentives, programming the rules of land allocation, and in line with the goals of federal government, and the agriculture credit system (Binswanger, then-governor Wanderley Dantas (1971-1974) set a 1991). policy to boost livestock production in the state. The government intervention on the Brazilian With the use of tax incentives and marketing Amazon was direct in the decades of sixty to eighty, campaigns, the advantages of investing financial and with tax incentives from the eighties (Prates, capital in Western Amazon were advertised to 2008). The structural changes and the government entrepreneurs from the south-central region of incentives are direct to promote economic growth, country. and the region occupation. The main beneficiary During the same period, the crisis in the rubber sector was cattle ranching in recent decades industry reached Acre’s rubber plantations. Most (Margulis, 2003; Diniz, Oliveira Junior, Trompieri seringalistas (rubber-plantation owners) had Neto, & Diniz, 2009; Rivero, Almeida, Ávila, & abandoned the land that later came to be occupied Oliveira, 2009). by seringueiros (rubber tappers). From that moment Social factors are also associated with on, these workers became posseiros (squatters) in deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon. Pfaff (1999) these areas. focused on population, and suggests two Upon their arrival, large, medium, and small determinants of deforestation, first the population investors from south-central Brazil, attracted by the density is not related with the increase in the idea of becoming successful cattle ranchers, bought Brazilian Amazon deforestation, and second, the the rubber plantations that were no longer actively quadratic distribution of population is positively exploited at very low prices. With the acquisition of associated with deforestation growth. It follows that the land by the ‘paulistas’ 1 , the seringueiros who the first migrants had greater impact than later occupied these areas were expelled, sparking land imigrants. As the Brazilian Amazon undergoes a tenure conflicts between ‘fazendeiros’ (cattle new stage of growth, mainly in the States like Acre, ranchers) and ‘posseiros’ (Calixto et al., 1985), thereby the increase of deforestation rate is combined with initiating the suppression of native vegetation for the population growth. The population growth livestock grazing. Therefore, given this historical hypothesis increasing the deforestation is tested and fact, the process of occupation of the Amazon region confirmed in Ehrhardt-Martinez (1998), together in the 1970s has been blamed for much of the with other forces of deforestation, as economic deforestation in Acre. growth rate, level of urbanization, level of sectoral In an attempt to put an end to a situation that inequality, rate of change in primary product continues to this day, Acre’s government is currently exports, and the rate of change in higher education. developing policies aimed at the preservation and Only the last variable is negatively associated with conservation of its forests. However, social and the growth of deforestation. economic aspects underlie the issues regarding the In part, it is primarily due to the exploitation of development of
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