Brazilian Amazon: a significant five year drop in deforestation rates but figures are on the rise again.

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Autor(a) principal: MALINGREAU, J. P.
Data de Publicação: 2012
Outros Autores: H. D. EVA, MIRANDA, E. E. de
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da EMBRAPA (Repository Open Access to Scientific Information from EMBRAPA - Alice)
Texto Completo: http://www.alice.cnptia.embrapa.br/alice/handle/doc/1123998
Resumo: Brazilian officials have recently announced that, after a five year lull, deforestation rates are again on the rise in the Legal Amazon (INPE 2011). While this may come as no surprise to some, it is still useful to examine the conditions which have led to the unexpected success by the authorities in reducing deforestation over the previous 5 years. The more so in that these years were characterized by rising agricultural commodity prices, usually a key driver in deforestation dynamics. We argue here that, despite the strong efforts by national and regional authorities to control deforestation processes a reversal of the trend was bound to occur as new policies were set into motion during the relatively quiet deforestation period to accommodate the economic aspirations of a growing population in Amazonia. Such aspirations were voiced in the National Congress, when deputies voted in May 2011 to relax the forest code laws. In a probable anticipation of such reform, an unambiguou
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Brazilian Amazon: a significant five year drop in deforestation rates but figures are on the rise again.
title Brazilian Amazon: a significant five year drop in deforestation rates but figures are on the rise again.
spellingShingle Brazilian Amazon: a significant five year drop in deforestation rates but figures are on the rise again.
MALINGREAU, J. P.
Legal Amazon
Deforestation
title_short Brazilian Amazon: a significant five year drop in deforestation rates but figures are on the rise again.
title_full Brazilian Amazon: a significant five year drop in deforestation rates but figures are on the rise again.
title_fullStr Brazilian Amazon: a significant five year drop in deforestation rates but figures are on the rise again.
title_full_unstemmed Brazilian Amazon: a significant five year drop in deforestation rates but figures are on the rise again.
title_sort Brazilian Amazon: a significant five year drop in deforestation rates but figures are on the rise again.
author MALINGREAU, J. P.
author_facet MALINGREAU, J. P.
H. D. EVA
MIRANDA, E. E. de
author_role author
author2 H. D. EVA
MIRANDA, E. E. de
author2_role author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv J. P. MALINGREAU, Research Centre of the European Commission; EVA, H. D., Research Centre of the European Commission; EVARISTO EDUARDO DE MIRANDA, CNPM.
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv MALINGREAU, J. P.
H. D. EVA
MIRANDA, E. E. de
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Legal Amazon
Deforestation
topic Legal Amazon
Deforestation
description Brazilian officials have recently announced that, after a five year lull, deforestation rates are again on the rise in the Legal Amazon (INPE 2011). While this may come as no surprise to some, it is still useful to examine the conditions which have led to the unexpected success by the authorities in reducing deforestation over the previous 5 years. The more so in that these years were characterized by rising agricultural commodity prices, usually a key driver in deforestation dynamics. We argue here that, despite the strong efforts by national and regional authorities to control deforestation processes a reversal of the trend was bound to occur as new policies were set into motion during the relatively quiet deforestation period to accommodate the economic aspirations of a growing population in Amazonia. Such aspirations were voiced in the National Congress, when deputies voted in May 2011 to relax the forest code laws. In a probable anticipation of such reform, an unambiguou
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