Depopulation of rural landscapes exacerbates fire activity in the western Amazon

Destructive fires in Amazonia have occurred in the past decade, leading to forest degradation, carbon emissions, impaired air quality, and property damage. Here, we couple climate, geospatial, and province-level census data, with farmer surveys to examine the climatic, demographic, and land use fact...

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Autores principales:	Uriarte, Maria, DeFries, Ruth S., Fernandes, Kátia, Gutiérrez Vélez, Victor Hugo, Baethgen, Walter E., Padoch, Christine, Pinedo Vasquez, Miguel
Formato:	Journal Article
Lenguaje:	Inglés
Publicado:	National Academy of Sciences 2012
Materias:	fires forest fires climate land use demography drought rural population landscape
Acceso en línea:	https://hdl.handle.net/10568/95500