Land use change emissions from oil palm expansion in Pará, Brazil depend on proper policy enforcement on deforested lands

Land use change emissions from oil palm expansion in Pará, Brazil depend on proper policy enforcement on deforested lands

Brazil aims to increase palm oil production to meet the growing national and global demand for edible oil and biodiesel while preserving environmentally and culturally significant areas. As land use change (LUC) is the result of complex interactions between socio-economic and biophysical drivers ope...

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Main Authors: Sahoko Yui, Sonia Yeh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2013-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
Subjects:
land use change
greenhouse gas emissions
Brazil
oil palm
biofuels
deforested land
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/8/4/044031

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https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/8/4/044031

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