Amazon deforestation revisited

This paper reviews the shifts in thinking as reflected in eight recent books that discuss deforestation in the Amazon. It looks first at whether the land uses that replace forests are profitable and sustainable without subsidies and then examines how technology, tenure, credit, and roads affect defo...

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Main Author:	Kaimowitz, D.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	Inglés
Published:	2002
Subjects:	deforestation land use economics tenure systems technology logging forest fires
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/10568/18571