A Risky Forest Policy in the Amazon?

21 de março de 2003

mar 21, 2003

Frank D. Merry, Gregory S. Amacher, Eirivelthon Lima, Daniel Nepstad

In their Policy Forum “National forests in the Amazon” (30 Aug., p. 1478), A. Veríssimo et al. seem assured that a new system of national forests will solve the problems of uncontrolled forest exploitation in the Brazilian Amazon. Unfortunately, we are far less optimistic.

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