Economic incentives to reduce agricultural fires: a case study in the Brazilian Amazon
The prevention and reduction of socio-environmental damage resulting from agricultural fires has been predominantly carried out in the Brazilian Amazon with the command-and-control approach. However, the theoretically more efficient approach of economic incentives has been increasingly adopted internationally. This research seeks to determine to what extent an incentive-based policy, in the form of for the replacement of burnings, would be, in the Amazon, more efficient than command-and-control. For this, it will be (i) elaborated the design of an economically optimal contract menu whose performance will be (ii) simulated, on the scale of municipalities in the Amazon, together with the performance of command-and-control. The data to be used will comprise measures of inspection cost, opportunity cost (including technology, land use and production cost), land and environmental regularity and fire risk. With this, a feasibility map will be produced for the incentive-based policy.