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Conservation Letters, 2022 While Brazil publicly committed to reduce deforestation in Amazonia at the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26), the Brazilian parliament is moving toward weakening environmental laws.
Guilherme Mataveli +7 more
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Spatio-Temporal Deforestation Measurement Using Automatic Clustering
Emitter: International Journal of Engineering Technology, 2016 Deforestation is one of the crucial issues in Indonesia. In 2012, deforestation rate in Indonesia reached 0.84 million hectares, exceeding Brazil. According to the 2009 Guinness World Records, Indonesia's deforestation rate was 1.8 million hectares per ...
Irene Erlyn Wina Rachmawan +2 more
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Deforestation for food production [PDF]
, 2019 Deforestation contributes to carbon emissions and therefore to climate change. Within food systems, agricultural production is the stage which plays the largest role in deforestation and forest degradation, and it is therefore the focus of this chapter ...
Betbeder, Julie +3 more
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How Effective is Property Right to Deter Deforestation in Indonesia 2001-2005
Economic Journal of Emerging Markets, 2011 The rate of deforestation in Indonesia is higher than the world average. The lack of property rights could potentially result in overexploitation on forest resources.
Rokhedi Priyo Santoso
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Remote Sensing, 2022 Deforestation is a major factor reducing natural habitats, leading to tropical ecosystems and biodiversity loss worldwide. The Lacandona region in southern Mexico holds one of the largest fragments of tropical rainforest in North America.
Ana Fernández-Montes de Oca +5 more
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Environmental Costs of Government-Sponsored Agrarian Settlements in Brazilian Amazonia [PDF]
, 2015 Brazil has presided over the most comprehensive agrarian reform frontier colonization program on Earth, in which ~1.2 million settlers have been translocated by successive governments since the 1970's, mostly into forested hinterlands of Brazilian ...
A Brandão Jr +54 more
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Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022 Using Colombia as a case study, this analysis provides insights on deforestation dynamics in times of conflict and peace and the different factors driving these dynamics.
Raphael Ganzenmüller +4 more
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Is small-scale agriculture really the main driver of deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon? Moving beyond the prevailing narrative [PDF]
, 2017 A key premise underlying discussion about deforestation in Amazonian Peru is that small-scale or so-called migratory agriculture is the main driver of deforestation. This premise has been expressed in government documents and public outreach events.
Alencar +40 more
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Spatial Model of Deforestation in Jambi Province for The Periode 1990–2011 [PDF]
Jurnal Manajemen Hutan Tropika, 2015 In the last 2 decades, deforestation had been an international issue due to its effect to climate change. This study describes a spatial modelling for predicting deforestation in Jambi Province.
Putu Ananta Wijaya +2 more
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Jurnal Ekonomi & Studi Pembangunan, 2023 Reducing the deforestation rate and formulating sustainable forest governance are still challenging for Southeast Asia. This empirical research intends to explore the dynamic connection between GDP, trade openness, corruption, and deforestation within ...
Mohamad Egi Destiartono, Mahjus Ekananda
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