Fogo no Brasil em 2024: o retrato fundiário da área queimada nos biomas
Ane Alencar¹, Vera Arruda¹, Felipe Martenexen¹, Eduardo Reis Rosa2, Eduardo Vélez-Martin3, Luis Fernando Guedes Pinto4, Soltan Galano Duverger 5, Newton Monteiro¹, Wallace Silva¹ ¹IPAM 2 ArcPlan 3GeoKarten 4Sos Mata Atlântica 5Geodatin Introdução O ano de 2024...
Forest Understory Fuel Loads, Paragominas, Para, Brazil: 2001
This data set contains estimates of understory fuel loads (forest litter) at six locations near Paragominas in Northeastern Amazonia. Samples were collected from three different forest conditions: primary forest, logged forest, and burned forest. Volumes and...
Slowing Amazon deforestation through public policy and interventions in beef and soy supply chains
The recent 70% decline in deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon suggests that it is possible to manage the advance of a vast agricultural frontier. Enforcement of laws, interventions in soy and beef supply chains, restrictions on access to credit, and expansion of...
Amazônia em Pauta 3: Rural Environment Registry (CAR) and its influence on the dynamics of deforestation in the Legal Amazon
On May 25th, 2012, after almost two years of discussions in Congress, a new version of the Brazilian Forest Code was approved (Law 12.651/2012). The new law reaffirmed important norms for forest conservation in all the Brazilian biomes. It also established...
Amazônia em Pauta 3: Cadastro Ambiental Rural e sua influência na dinâmica do desmatamento na Amazônia Legal
A terceira edição do boletim Amazônia em Pauta analisa como a dinâmica de desmatamento nos Estados de Mato Grosso e Pará, entre os anos 2008 e 2012, foi afetada pela implementação do Cadastro Ambiental Rural (CAR).
InfoPAS 3: 2014 – Ano Internacional da Agricultura Familiar
InfoPAS - Número 3 - Ano 2 - Informativo do Projeto Assentamentos Sustentáveis na Amazônia (PAS). Brasília. 2013.
Cracking Brazil’s Forest Code
Roughly 53% of Brazil's native vegetation occurs on private properties. Native forests and savannahs on these lands store 105 ± 21 GtCO2e (billion tons of CO2 equivalents) and play a vital role in maintaining a broad range of ecosystem services (1). Sound...