Author: Alexander S. P. PfaffPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Carreteras - Brasil
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
What Drives Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon?
Author: Alexander S. P. PfaffPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Carreteras - Brasil
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
What Drives Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon?
Author: Alexander S. P. PfaffPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Carreteras - Brasil
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Causes of Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon
Author: Sérgio MargulisPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821356913
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Annotation This title studies the role of cattle ranching its dynamic and profitability in the expansion of deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia. It provides a social evaluation of deforestation in this region and presents and compares a number of different scenarios and proposed recommendations.
What Drives Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon?
Author: Alexander Strickland Putalik PfaffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atmospheric chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Causes of Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon
Author: Sérgio MargulisPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821356913
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Annotation This title studies the role of cattle ranching its dynamic and profitability in the expansion of deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia. It provides a social evaluation of deforestation in this region and presents and compares a number of different scenarios and proposed recommendations.
Balancing Agricultural Development and Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Author: Andrea CattaneoPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN: 0896291308
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Since the 1970s, federal policies promoting migration and encouraging agricultural development of large farms, logging, and ranching have led to the deforestation of vast areas of the Amazon rainforest.Though these policies have largely been replaced, deforestation continues. What effects do current macroeconomic and regional policies and events have on deforestation and on the well-being of settlers on the agricultural frontier? This report identifies the links between the agriculture and logging sectors in the Amazon, economic growth, poverty alleviation, and natural resource degradation in the region and in Brazil as a whole.It considers the effects of currency devaluation, building roads and other infrastructure in the Amazon, property rights, adoption of technological change, and fiscal incentives and disincentives to deforest.The results are sometimes counterintuitive, but shed new light on why slowing deforestation is so difficult and on the trade-offs between environmental and economic goals.
Slash-and-burn Agriculture
Author: Cheryl Ann PalmPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231134507
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Alternatives to Slash and Burn (ASB) consortium was formed in 1992 by a group of concerned national and international research institutions to address the global and local issues associated with this form of agriculture. With contributions from scientists, economists, ecologists, and anthropologists, this book synthesizes the first decade of ASB's work. It assesses the environmental, economic, and social impact of deforestation and the needs of small-scale farmers who rely on slash-and-burn agriculture for their livelihood.
Amazonia and Global Change
Author: Michael KellerPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118671511
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1472
Book Description
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 186. Amazonia and Global Change synthesizes results of the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA) for scientists and students of Earth system science and global environmental change. LBA, led by Brazil, asks how Amazonia currently functions in the global climate and biogeochemical systems and how the functioning of Amazonia will respond to the combined pressures of climate and land use change, such as Wet season and dry season aerosol concentrations and their effects on diffuse radiation and photosynthesis Increasing greenhouse gas concentration, deforestation, widespread biomass burning and changes in the Amazonian water cycle Drought effects and simulated drought through rainfall exclusion experiments The net flux of carbon between Amazonia and the atmosphere Floodplains as an important regulator of the basin carbon balance including serving as a major source of methane to the troposphere The impact of the likely increased profitability of cattle ranching. The book will serve a broad community of scientists and policy makers interested in global change and environmental issues with high-quality scientific syntheses accessible to nonspecialists in a wide community of social scientists, ecologists, atmospheric chemists, climatologists, and hydrologists.
The Economics of Land Use
Author: Ian W. HardiePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351891081
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
The Economics of Land Use brings together the most significant journal essays in key areas of contemporary agricultural, food and resource economics and land use policy. The editors provide a state-of-the-art overview of the topic and access to the economic literature that has shaped contemporary perspectives on land use analysis and policy.
Governing the Provision of Ecosystem Services
Author: Roldan MuradianPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400751761
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Founded on the core notion that we have reached a turning point in the governance, and thus the conservation, of ecosystems and the environment, this edited volume features more than 20 original chapters, each informed by the paradigm shift in the sector over the last decade. Where once the emphasis was on strategies for conservation, enacted through instruments of control such as planning and ‘polluter pays’ legislation, more recent developments have shown a shift towards incentive-based arrangements aimed at those responsible for providing the environmental services enabled by such ecosystems. Encouraging shared responsibility for watershed management, developed in Costa Rica, is a prime example, and the various interests involved in its instauration in Java are one of the subjects examined here.