Spatial variation of deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon: A complex theater for agrarian technology, agrarian structure and governance by surveillance. Land Use Policy, 30: 915-924De Souza, Rodrigo Antonio; Miziara, Fausto; De Marco, Junior Paulo (2013). "Spatial variation of deforestation...
From 2004 to 2012 the rate of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon slowed. The government’s environmental protection agency, Ibama, was strengthened. Other countries, and global NGOs, nagged and encouraged; in 2008 an international Amazon Fund was created to help pay for protection. Not a mome...
University of Nebraska - LincolnDigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - LincolnGeography Faculty Publications Geography Program (SNR)1-1-1992The Disaster of Deforestation in the BrazilianRainforestRobert StoddardUniversity of Nebraska - Lincoln, rstoddard1@unl.eduFollow this and additional works at:http:...
To the Editor — In 2012, Brazil achieved an unprecedented feat among tropical countries by reducing deforestation rates in Amazonia by 84% (4,571 km2) compared to the historical peak of 2004, when 27,772 km2 of forests were clear-cut1 (Fig. 1). This achievement resulted from multiple ...
Interviews were held with land users in Acre state, a municipality with high rates of deforestation located in the forest frontier of the Brazilian Amazon. Critical legal geography was applied as a theoretical framework to investigate the ways in which legal meaning emerges in and through that ...
“If the variation between Deter and Prodes figures remains at the historical average, we could have about 13,000 square kilometers of deforestation, the highest rate since 2006 and three times more than the National Climate Change Policy target for 2020,” said the Climate Observatory, comprised...
Indeed, 70% of the “deforestation slowdown” occurred between 2004 and 2007, during which time the exchange rate of the US dollar against the Brazilian Real fell by more than half, in turn making soy and beef exports less profitable (data in: Assunção et al., 2015). As such, the...
Deforestation and land use in the Brazilian Amazon Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon was less than 1% before 1975. Between 1975 and 1987 the rate increased exponentially. By 1985, world opinion and atte... EF Moran - 《Human Ecology》 被引量: 301发表: 1993年 Protected area types, strateg...
The first trimester of 2020 had already seen a more than 50% increase in deforestation compared to last year, according to INPE data. “The indigenous people in the Amazon don’t have the antibodies for the diseases that come from outside of the rainforest,” Brazilian activist and photograp...
The Brazilian government intends to complete the paving of the BR-319 highway, which connects Porto Velho in the deforestation arc region with Manaus in the middle of the Amazon Forest. This paving is being planned despite environmental legislation, and there is concern that its effectiveness will...