@InProceedings{Morello:2015:AsRoFa,
               author = "Morello, Thiago Fonseca",
                title = "Agricultural use of fire in the Brazilian Amazon: Assessing the 
                         role of farms'' boundaries",
            booktitle = "Anais...",
                 year = "2015",
               editor = "Gherardi, Douglas Francisco Marcolino and Arag{\~a}o, Luiz 
                         Eduardo Oliveira e Cruz de",
                pages = "5058--5064",
         organization = "Simp{\'o}sio Brasileiro de Sensoriamento Remoto, 17. (SBSR)",
            publisher = "Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)",
              address = "S{\~a}o Jos{\'e} dos Campos",
             abstract = "This paper conducts an econometric analysis of MODIS fire 
                         detections whose basis is the economic theory of externalities. 
                         Data comprises, additionally, land property information from the 
                         Rural-Environmental Land Registry (CAR) and land use, with the 
                         municipality of Paragominas being the study region. The main goal 
                         is to refute the hypothesis that, controlling for land 
                         profitability, Amazonian farmers tend to burn closer to farms 
                         boundaries, transferring to society a relevant fraction of the 
                         damage imposed by eventual escaped fires. To account for the 
                         uncertainty regarding effective fires location a metric for the 
                         probability of fire location is proposed and taken as the 
                         explained variable. The partially discontinuous behavior of this 
                         variable is modelled with Tobit and Probit non-linear regression 
                         models. The results demonstrate that farm boundaries are 
                         statistically significant predictors of fire detections, after 
                         accounting for the influence of proxies for the economic value of 
                         land, including the value at risk of being accidentally burned. 
                         Farmers of Paragominas tend to burn closer to boundaries, not 
                         fully internalizing the cost of fire use. The regime of complete 
                         internalization, established by the controlled burn law, does not 
                         seem to be enforced in practice. The main implication for future 
                         research is the attested relevance of land property as a predictor 
                         of fire detections. The knowledge accumulated up to the present 
                         time comes, overall, from statistical models that account only for 
                         biophysical and/or geographical predictors, overlooking the role 
                         of property rights.",
  conference-location = "Jo{\~a}o Pessoa",
      conference-year = "25-29 abr. 2015",
                 isbn = "978-85-17-0076-8",
                label = "992",
             language = "en",
         organisation = "Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)",
                  ibi = "8JMKD3MGP6W34M/3JM4DJ4",
                  url = "http://urlib.net/ibi/8JMKD3MGP6W34M/3JM4DJ4",
           targetfile = "p0992.pdf",
                 type = "Mudan{\c{c}}a de uso e cobertura da Terra",
        urlaccessdate = "13 maio 2024"
}