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Patents on Periphery of the Amazon Rainforest
Recent Patents on Food, Nutrition & Agriculturee, 2009In the humid tropics, on the edges of the Amazon forest, the technological challenges to establishing and maintaining productive and sustainable agricultural systems have yet to be overcome. The groups involved in agriculture in the north of Brazil still engage in the practice of slash and burn in order to prepare and fertilize the soil.
Emanoel G, de Moura +4 more
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Optimal Environmental Targeting in the Amazon Rainforest
The Review of Economic Studies, 2022Abstract This article sets out a data-driven approach for targeting environmental policies optimally in order to combat deforestation. We focus on the Amazon, the world’s most extensive rainforest, where Brazil’s federal government issued a “Priority List” of municipalities in 2008—a blacklist to be targeted with more intense ...
Juliano Assunção +3 more
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“Dr Zhivago” in the Amazon rainforest
Latinskaia Amerika, 2022The author of the article makes an attempt to verify the veracity of the story set out by Yevgeny Yevtushenko in his poem "Dora Franco". It is about a copy of Doctor Zhivago, which the poet discovered in a small library in the town of Leticia in the Amazon part of Colombia in 1968.
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Unpicking the rhythms of the Amazon rainforest
Nature, 2021PhD student James Ball maps tree trunks to better understand a crucial ecosystem and its response to climate change. PhD student James Ball maps tree trunks to better understand a crucial ecosystem and its response to climate change.
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AMAZON RAINFOREST AND INTERNATIONAL LAW
Journal of Southwest Jiaotong UniversityThis paper aims to analyze the effect of climate change on the principle of state sovereignty. This study examines the case of the Amazon rainforest, the ‘lungs’ of the earth, which has 60% of its land inside Brazil’s territory and provides a natural ecosystem that helps stabilize the world’s climate.
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Amazon rainforest faces existential climate risk
Emerald Expert BriefingsSignificance The situation, which began in northern regions, quickly spread, affecting the entire basin by September. Since January, large areas of the basin have been in a state of ‘exceptional’ meteorological and agricultural drought -- a condition that is not unprecedented, but which has become more common in recent ...
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How Climate Change Affects the Amazon Rainforest
Inquiry@Queen's Undergraduate Research Conference Proceedings, 2018Climate change has a drastic impact on the structure and behavior of the amazon. Short-term effects of climate change are gradually creating more long-term effects that can be witnessed globally. Due to increased temperature, decreased precipitation and increased greenhouse gases, the amazon faces hazardous events such as droughts, forest fires, floods
Tegan McWhirter, Lisa Leung
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Amazon rainforest to get a growth check
Science, 2016Ambitious experiment will test whether rising CO 2 will boost the tropical carbon sink.
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Cattle ranching in the Amazon rainforest
2003Depuis les années 1960, le troupeau bovin du bassin amazonien est passé de 5 millions à plus de 70 à 80 millions de têtes. Près de 15% de la forêt amazonienne a été remplacée et près de 80% des superficies déboisées ont été couvertes de pâturages (environ 900 000 km').
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The Amazon Rainforest: A green criminological perspective
2013This chapter presents results from a project undertaken between 2010 and 2016, entitled ‘Lands and Rights in Troubled Water’ (or ‘LAR’), funded by the Dutch NWO-WOTRO (Science for Global Development) Programme; the project focussed on understanding and mitigating conflicts over natural resources in Colombia and Brazil.
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