Eliane Voll

TL;DR: It is reported that protected areas in the Amazon basin—the central feature of prevailing conservation approaches—are an important but insufficient component of this strategy, based on policy-sensitive simulations of future deforestation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a land-cover change simulation model that is responsive to road paving and policy intervention scenarios for the BR-163 highway in central Amazonia, which connects important soybean production regions and burgeoning population centers in Mato Grosso State with the international port of Santarem.

TL;DR: In this article, a modelo de simulacao de desmatamento na bacia Amazonica, sensivel a diferentes cenarios de politicas publicas frente a expansao da infraestrutura de transporte pela regiao.

TL;DR: In this article, SimAmazonia was used to simulate monthly deforestation in the Amazon Basin from 2002 to 2050 for two scenarios: (1) a business-as-usual) scenario, which considered the deforestation trends across the basin and projected the rates by using historical images and their variations from 1997 to 2002 and then added to that the effect of paving a set of major roads, and (2) a "governance" scenario, that also considered the current deforestation trends, but assumed a 50% limit imposed for deforested land within each basin's subregion, and that

TL;DR: In this article, the authors integrated geomorphological, geological and geophysical data to identify favorable areas for the occurrence of iron-rich rocks in the tableland domains of northern Minas Gerais State, Brazil.