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d(deforestation in base year) |
Fixed for each grid cell based on observed deforestation in the years 2002–2004 prior to policy change in Brazil (see Table 1) |
See methodological description in S2 Appendix
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TC (inspection cost of visiting first deforestation patch in i) |
Fixed for each grid cell estimated based on cost data from IBAMA and travel time map as documented in Börner et al. (2014) |
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TC’ (within grid cell inspection costs) |
Fixed for each grid cell as average cost of travelling through half of the cell |
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nd (number of additional deforestation patches per grid cell) |
Estimated as a linear function of total deforestation per grid cell from historical deforestation data (0.035 patches per hectare) |
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B (enforcement budget) |
0 to BRL 50,000,000 - BRL 1 ∼ USD 0,45 (July 2014: http://www.oanda.com) |
IBAMA’s 2004 operational budget for “environmental protection” at the national level was BRL 62 million. According to interviews with the agency, most of this budget is allocated to the Amazon region. |
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F (per hectare disincentive) |
BRL 0–5000 |
BRL 5000 per hectare was the value of a fine for violating the forest retention standard according to the 1998 version of Law 9.605 |
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PES(per hectare incentive) |
BRL 0–5000 |
No established value yet at national level |
