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Deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia: the rates and causes of forest destruction

While the proportion of Brazilian Amazonia which has been cleared is still small relative to the region's total area, if the explosive surge in the rate of clearing which has taken place in recent years is allowed to continue it will quickly lead to the disappearance of the entire forest. Lack of su...

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Autor principal: Fearnside, Philip Martin
Grau: Artigo
Idioma: English
Publicado em: Ecologist 2020
Assuntos:
Colonisation
Deforestation
Logging
Ranching
Amazon
Brasil
Acesso em linha: https://repositorio.inpa.gov.br/handle/1/19585
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spelling oai:repositorio:1-19585 Deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia: the rates and causes of forest destruction Fearnside, Philip Martin Colonisation Deforestation Logging Ranching Amazon Brasil While the proportion of Brazilian Amazonia which has been cleared is still small relative to the region's total area, if the explosive surge in the rate of clearing which has taken place in recent years is allowed to continue it will quickly lead to the disappearance of the entire forest. Lack of sufficient capital and labour can temporarily slow the rate of deforestation, but the process will run to completion unless fundamental changes are made in the structure of the legal and economic system underlying forest clearance. Ranching, colonization and industrilization are currently the main causes of this destruction with logging gaining in importance. -from Author 2020-06-15T22:10:17Z 2020-06-15T22:10:17Z 1989 Artigo https://repositorio.inpa.gov.br/handle/1/19585 en Volume 19, Número 6, Pags. 214-218 Restrito Ecologist
institution Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia - Repositório Institucional
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language English
topic Colonisation
Deforestation
Logging
Ranching
Amazon
Brasil
spellingShingle Colonisation
Deforestation
Logging
Ranching
Amazon
Brasil
Fearnside, Philip Martin
Deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia: the rates and causes of forest destruction
topic_facet Colonisation
Deforestation
Logging
Ranching
Amazon
Brasil
description While the proportion of Brazilian Amazonia which has been cleared is still small relative to the region's total area, if the explosive surge in the rate of clearing which has taken place in recent years is allowed to continue it will quickly lead to the disappearance of the entire forest. Lack of sufficient capital and labour can temporarily slow the rate of deforestation, but the process will run to completion unless fundamental changes are made in the structure of the legal and economic system underlying forest clearance. Ranching, colonization and industrilization are currently the main causes of this destruction with logging gaining in importance. -from Author
format Artigo
author Fearnside, Philip Martin
title Deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia: the rates and causes of forest destruction
title_short Deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia: the rates and causes of forest destruction
title_full Deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia: the rates and causes of forest destruction
title_fullStr Deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia: the rates and causes of forest destruction
title_full_unstemmed Deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia: the rates and causes of forest destruction
title_sort deforestation in brazilian amazonia: the rates and causes of forest destruction
publisher Ecologist
publishDate 2020
url https://repositorio.inpa.gov.br/handle/1/19585
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