Socioeconomic Development and Deforestation in the Cerrado Biome, BrazilSpatial Interactions and Heterogeneity

Resumo

This paper investigates the relationship between socioeconomic development and deforestation in the Cerrado biome, mainly focusing on the current Brazilian agricultural frontier of Matopiba. More specifically, we search for spatial interactions, heterogeneity, and spatial clusters among the municipalities using the exploratory analysis of spatial data (ESDA). Due to the many possible socioeconomic variables related to deforestation decisions, we create a Socioeconomic Development Index (SDI) that synthesizes all possible influences using factorial analysis from multivariate statistics. We also grouped cluster analysis municipalities with dissimilar deforestation and economic development patterns. The results show that the biome’s economic development and deforestation are spatially concentrated and heterogeneous and are negatively associated for the majority of Cerrado municipalities both in the spatial and cluster analysis, indicating that socioeconomic development may be an inhibitor of deforestation.

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Tipo

Artigo científico

Ano

2022

Instituição

Associação Brasileira de Estudos Regionais e Urbanos

Fonte

Revista Brasileira de Estudos Regionais e Urbanos

Idioma

Português

Acesso

Não informado

DOI

10.54766/rberu.v15i3.792

Identificador

oai:ojs.emnuvens.com.br:article/792

Licença

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Temas

Desenvolvimento Econômico

Palavras-chave

DeforestationSocioeconomic developmentCerradoMatopibaEconomic integration