Priority Areas for Establishing National Forests in the Brazilian Amazon

Priority Areas for Establishing National Forests in the Brazilian Amazon

Brazil will benefit if it gains control of its vast Amazonian timber resources. Without immediate planning, the fate of much of the Amazon will be decided by predatory and largely unregulated timber interests. Logging in the Amazon is a transient process of natural resource mining. Older logging fro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Adalberto Veríssimo, Mark A. Cochrane, Carlos Souza Jr., Rodney Salomão
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Resilience Alliance 2002-06-01
Series:	Ecology and Society
Subjects:	Amazon Brazil GIS model conservation logging national forest production forest sustainable management tropical forest
Online Access:	http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol6/iss1/art4/

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