Changing Amazon deforestation patterns: urgent need to restore command and control policies and market interventions

Changing Amazon deforestation patterns: urgent need to restore command and control policies and market interventions

Market and public policies govern deforestation trends and patterns globally. Here I show that in the Brazilian Amazon, the largest tropical forest in the world, the size of deforestation polygons - the individual portions of cleared forest patches - has significantly increased in response to the cu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ralph Trancoso
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2021-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
Subjects:
Amazonia
tropical forest
forest clearing
land use
land cover
deforestation size
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abee4c

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https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abee4c

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