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O impacto da regularização fundiária na economia verde

Estudo publicado pelo IPAM na revista Stanford Social Innovation Review Brasil, verificou a existência de 57 mil propriedades fora dos sistemas do INCRA, o que resulta em mais de 9,9 milhões de hectares de terras sem cadastro. Quando somadas às áreas já registradas...

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Commodity production in Brazil, it is not (all) about deforestation: combining zero deforestation and zero illegality

Commodity production in Brazil, it is not (all) about deforestation: combining zero deforestation and zero illegality

In the last eight years, we have seen a drastic reduction in deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon. The annual deforestation rate in 2014 (484.8 thousand ha) was 75% lower than the historical average between 1996 and 2005 (1.95 million ha). This reduction has...

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Deforestation offsets water balance changes due to climate variability in the Xingu River in eastern Amazonia

Deforestation offsets water balance changes due to climate variability in the Xingu River in eastern Amazonia

Deforestation reduced forest cover in Brazil’s Xingu River Basin (XB; area: 510,000 km2) from 90% of the basin in the 1970s to 75% in the 2000s. Such large-scale land cover changes can substantially alter regional water budgets, but their influence can be difficult...

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Early recruitment responses to interactions between frequent fires, nutrients, and herbivory in the southern Amazon

Early recruitment responses to interactions between frequent fires, nutrients, and herbivory in the southern Amazon

Understanding tropical forest diversity is a long-standing challenge in ecology. With global change, it has become increasingly important to understand how anthropogenic and natural factors interact to determine diversity. Anthropogenic increases in fire frequency...

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Amazônia em Pauta 4: A revolução tecnológica do IBAMA e os limites do comando e controle na Amazônia

Amazônia em Pauta 4: A revolução tecnológica do IBAMA e os limites do comando e controle na Amazônia

O desmatamento é uma das principais fontes de gases do efeito estufa, contribuindo com 15% das emissões em nível global. Após décadas de altas taxas de desmatamento na Amazônia brasileira, entre 2005 e 2012 foi possível observar reduções significativas na...