Titles, Conflict, and Land Use: The Development of Property Rights and Land Reform on the Brazilian Amazon Frontier (Economics, Cognition, and Society)

Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright......Page 5
Dedication
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Acknowledgments......Page 8
Contents......Page 10
Figures......Page 12
Tables......Page 14
Historical and Current Frontiers and Their Importance in Economic Development and Resource Use......Page 16
The Role of Property Rights in Resource Use and Wealth on the Frontier......Page 23
A Model of Frontier Settlement and the Demand for and Supply of Property Rights......Page 28
The Political Provision of Property Rights......Page 32
An Introduction to the Brazilian Amazon Frontier and the Outline of the Book......Page 37
The Role of Land Policy and Reform in the Settlement of Frontiers in Brazil......Page 46
The Occupation of Public Land in Brazil from Historical Times to Present......Page 48
The History of Land Reform in Brazil......Page 52
Conclusion......Page 67
INCRA and Expropriations......Page 70
La ndless Peasants and Settlement Projects......Page 75
Landowners and Unproductive Properties......Page 82
The Courts, Property Rights to Land, Evictions, and Land Reform......Page 86
New Models of Land Reform......Page 89
Concluding Remarks......Page 91
4. A Framework for Analyzing Settlement, Property Rights, and Violence on the Brazilian Amazon Frontier......Page 96
Settlement and Property Rights......Page 98
Property Rights and Land Conflict......Page 102
Conclusion......Page 110
Characteristics of the Frontier Communities That We Surveyed......Page 113
The Frontier Settlement Process......Page 117
Land Markets, Turnover, and the Characteristics of Settlers......Page 119
The Value of Titled Land and the Costs of Establishing Property Rights......Page 124
Conclusion......Page 128
A Model of Property Rights, Land Value, and Investment......Page 131
Empirical Results......Page 135
Conclusion......Page 142
The Frontier States of Parana and Para......Page 146
Characteristics of the Census Data Set for the Two States......Page 152
An Analytical Model and Estimation of Titling, land Values, and Investment on the Frontier......Page 153
Empirical Results......Page 157
Concluding Remarks......Page 163
Rural Conflicts: The Decision Making of Titleholders and Squatters......Page 168
Country-, State-, and Municipio-Level Data on Rural Conflicts,......Page 173
The Determinants of Violent Conflict Over Land in the Amazon......Page 183
Land Conflict: The Impact on Investment and Land Values......Page 189
Conclusion......Page 191
9. Equity and Efficiency: The Political Provision of Property Rights and Their Distribution on the Frontier......Page 207
A Summary of Major Points......Page 211
The Apparent Neglect of Titling......Page 214
Violence: Is There a Solution?......Page 216
The Future of the Amazon......Page 219
Index......Page 234
Back Cover
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