Garimpo Canaan : a successful case of reclamation of an artisanal gold mine in the Amazon
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon region was increased in the 1970’s. The total amount of forest already cut to the date is over 700,000 km² or over 18% of the original forest. Mining activities in the Amazon also escalated after 1970, with thousands of artisanal miners extracting gold and remov...
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| Language: | English |
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2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/8310 |