Amazonian Deforestation Slowing but May Already be at a Tipping Point Mato Grosso, Brazil - UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS) 2011

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dc.contributor.authorUnited Nations Environment Programme
dc.contributor.organizationScience Division
dc.coverage.spatialBrazil
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-17T05:14:35Z
dc.date.available2022-10-17T05:14:35Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.descriptionAt the beginning of the 20th century, roughly 80 percent of the 5 million km2 "Legal Amazon" region of Brazil was forested (Kirby and others 2006). Highways built in the 1950s and 1960s, along with government incentives for colonization and development, created a boom in the conversion of forests to cattle ranching and farming (Kirby and others 2006). Much of this change occurred along an arc at the southern edge of the Amazon Basin where the newly built roads facilitated access to the forest and connected the region to markets outside the forest.en
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dc.identifier.urihttps://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/40834
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofUNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS)
dc.rights.accessLevelPublic
dc.subjectdeforestation
dc.subjectBrazil
dc.subjectforest
dc.titleAmazonian Deforestation Slowing but May Already be at a Tipping Point Mato Grosso, Brazil - UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS) 2011en
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