Author : Edward B. Barbier
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 33,94 MB
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0299237338
Country case studies investigate key factors that influence the economics of tropical deforestation and land use. Articles illustrate how innovative economic models can be used effectively to investigate a range of important influences on tropical land use changes in a variety of representative developing countries. The countries covered are: Brazil, India, Malaysia, Panama, the Philippines, Thailand, and Uganda.
Author : Lykke E. Andersen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 36,35 MB
Release : 2002-12-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521811972
A multi-disciplinary team of authors analyze the economics of Brazilian deforestation using a large data set of ecological and economic variables. They survey the most up to date work in this field and present their own dynamic and spatial econometric analysis based on municipality level panel data spanning the entire Brazilian Amazon from 1970 to 1996. By observing the dynamics of land use change over such a long period the team is able to provide quantitative estimates of the long-run economic costs and benefits of both land clearing and government policies such as road building. The authors find that some government policies, such as road paving in already highly settled areas, are beneficial both for economic development and for the preservation of forest, while other policies, such as the construction of unpaved roads through virgin areas, stimulate wasteful land uses to the detriment of both economic growth and forest cover.
Author : Charles H. Wood
Publisher :
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 46,97 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780813024653
The Amazonian territories of Brazil, Bolivia and Ecuador encompass nearly half of the world's remaining tropical rainforest and contain a wealth of biodiversity whose value we have only begun to appreciate. This book is an authoritative analysis of the socioeconomic and biophysical factors operating at local, national and global levels that serve to promote deforestation in this delicate region.
Author : Laszlo Nagy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 17,51 MB
Release : 2016-11-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 3662499029
This book offers a panorama of recent scientific achievements produced through the framework of the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere programme (LBA) and other research programmes in the Brazilian Amazon. The content is highly interdisciplinary, with an overarching aim to contribute to the understanding of the dynamic biophysical and societal/socio-economic structure and functioning of Amazonia as a regional entity and its regional and global climatic teleconnections. The target readership includes advanced undergraduate and post-graduate students and researchers seeking to untangle the gamut of interactions that the Amazon’s complex biophysical and social system represent.
Author : Ary S. Jr.
Publisher : Ary S. Jr.
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 21,86 MB
Release : 2023-05-16
Category : Nature
ISBN :
The book is intended for a general audience, as well as for students, researchers, policymakers, and stakeholders who are interested in learning more about the problem and the potential of the Amazon forest. The book aims to raise awareness and generate action for reducing deforestation and promoting forest conservation and sustainable development in the Amazon, for the benefit of the planet and its people.
Author : Emilio F. Moran
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 16,71 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Deforestation
ISBN : 0262633124
'Seeing the Forest and the Trees' examines changes in land cover & land use in forested regions as major contributors to global environmental change.
Author : Eric F. Lambin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 14,58 MB
Release : 2008-01-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 3540322027
This book presents recent estimates on the rate of change of major land classes. Aggregated globally, multiple impacts of local land changes are shown to significantly affect central aspects of Earth System functioning. The book offers innovative developments and applications in the fields of modeling and scenario construction. Conclusions are also drawn about the most pressing implications for the design of appropriate intervention policies.
Author : Stephen Peter Aldrich
Publisher :
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 29,22 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Deforestation
ISBN :
Author : Stephen J. Walsh
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 15,59 MB
Release : 2002-04-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781402070037
CD-ROM contains: Illustrations (PDF) from text.
Author : Michael Keller
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1472 pages
File Size : 25,26 MB
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 1118671511
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 186. Amazonia and Global Change synthesizes results of the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA) for scientists and students of Earth system science and global environmental change. LBA, led by Brazil, asks how Amazonia currently functions in the global climate and biogeochemical systems and how the functioning of Amazonia will respond to the combined pressures of climate and land use change, such as Wet season and dry season aerosol concentrations and their effects on diffuse radiation and photosynthesis Increasing greenhouse gas concentration, deforestation, widespread biomass burning and changes in the Amazonian water cycle Drought effects and simulated drought through rainfall exclusion experiments The net flux of carbon between Amazonia and the atmosphere Floodplains as an important regulator of the basin carbon balance including serving as a major source of methane to the troposphere The impact of the likely increased profitability of cattle ranching. The book will serve a broad community of scientists and policy makers interested in global change and environmental issues with high-quality scientific syntheses accessible to nonspecialists in a wide community of social scientists, ecologists, atmospheric chemists, climatologists, and hydrologists.
