The Amazon’s Vicious Cycles

1 de janeiro de 2007

jan 1, 2007

Daniel C. Nepstad

The aim of this report is to explore the relationship between the Amazon, climate, and the changes in this relationship that are underway as a result of forest destruction and the release of heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere.

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EXTRACTIVE RESERVES IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON THIRTY YEARS AFTER CHICO MENDES: SOCIAL MOVEMENT ACHIEVEMENTS, TERRITORIAL EXPANSION AND CONTINUING STRUGGLES

EXTRACTIVE RESERVES IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON THIRTY YEARS AFTER CHICO MENDES: SOCIAL MOVEMENT ACHIEVEMENTS, TERRITORIAL EXPANSION AND CONTINUING STRUGGLES

The Brazilian Amazon contains the largest remaining contiguous forest in the tropics, but also faces strong development pressures and one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world. In the 30 years since the murder of the rubber tapper leader Chico Mendes...

Guia do capacitador

Guia do capacitador

Este material é um Guia para os técnicos, participantes no Programa CapGestão Amazônia. Ele apresenta, de forma rápida e sistemática, um conjunto de ferramentas que poderá apoiar no desenho e implementação das oficinas pelos (as) técnicos (as) com os grupos locais (grupos informais, Associações e Cooperativas).

Large-scale impoverishment of Amazonian forests by logging and fire

Large-scale impoverishment of Amazonian forests by logging and fire

Amazonian deforestation rates are used to determine human effects on the global carbon cycle and to measure Brazil's progress in curbing forest impoverishment. But this widely used measure of tropical land use tells only part of the story. Here we present field surveys of wood mills and forest burning across Brazilian Amazonia which show that logging crews severely damage 10,000 to 15,000 km2 yr−1 of forest that are not included in deforestation mapping programmes.