Protected Areas’ Deforestation Spillovers and Two Critical Underlying Mechanisms: An Empirical Exploration for the Brazilian Amazon

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Diego Herrera is an Environmental Economist at the World Bank’s Environment, Natural Resources, and Blue Economy Global Practice. At the World Bank he is supporting global and country-level efforts to value natural capital and manage wealth account­ing global databases. Before joining the World Bank, Diego was an Economist at the Environmental Defense Fund and a Postdoctoral Associate at the Gund Institute for Environment, University of Vermont.  Diego’s research addresses the interactions between frest conservation and development outcomes and policies. Among other topics, Diego has studied the relationship between forest conservation and human health in low- and middle-income countries, and the impacts of Brazilian Amazon protected areas on deforestation, road investments, and human migrations. Diego holds a PhD in environmental economics and policy from Duke University.