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[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.