A Amazônia no caminho da transição agrícola mundial

28 de fevereiro de 2005

fev 28, 2005

Daniel C. Nepstad, Oriana T. Almeida

 

Neste documento, o Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia (IPAM), em colaboração com o Woods Hole Research Center, apresentam um breve resumo do contexto global do desmatamento na Amazônia e identificam as oportunidades atuais para se ordenar o uso de recursos naturais na região através do mercado global. As considerações explicitadas aqui são complementares àquelas relacionadas ao ordenamento da expansão da fronteira agrícola na Amazônia e apresentada em publicação do IPAM em 2004 (Alencar et al. 2004)

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