Take what you can: Property rights, contestability and conflict 1997-2020

Fetzer, Thiemo and Marden, Samuel (2020). Take what you can: Property rights, contestability and conflict 1997-2020. [Data Collection]. Colchester, Essex: UK Data Service. 10.5255/UKDA-SN-854210

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Data description (abstract)

We constructed a data set containing the share of land under protection for the 792 municipalities in the Amazon states for each year between 1997 and 2010. The project exploits spatial and temporal variation in the availability of land with title that is contestable by private actors to explore the relationship between (in)secure property rights and civil conflict in the Brazilian Amazon. During this period, the share of Amazon land under some sort of protection increased markedly, from 16% to 44%, providing substantial cross‐sectional and time‐series variation in the availability of contestable land. We also use high resolution land cover data to estimate forest cover and estimate the relationship between contestability of land, forest cover and conflict.

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