Considerably more is at stake in the ongoing battle in Brazil’s Congress and government over the country’s core forest protection legislation, the Forest Code, than President Dilma Rousseff’s political fortunes or Brazil’s international reputation.
Managing the Amazon timber industry
Managing the Amazon timber industry
Timber is a strategic resource in Amazon frontier development, providing 250,000 jobs and up to one-fourth of the region’s gross domestic product (Uhl et al. 1997; Veríssimo et al. 2002a, 2002b). Since the 1980s, timber sales have replaced government subsidies as...