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Georgia O. Carvalho
Researcher at Woods Hole Research Center
Publications - 8
Citations - 998
Georgia O. Carvalho is an academic researcher from Woods Hole Research Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Deforestation & Sustainable development. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 8 publications receiving 961 citations.
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Road paving, fire regime feedbacks, and the future of Amazon forests
Daniel C. Nepstad,Georgia O. Carvalho,Ana Cristina Barros,Ane Alencar,João Paulo Capobianco,Josh Bishop,Paulo Moutinho,Paul Lefebvre,Urbano Lopes da Silva,E. M. Prins +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that paving, recuperate or constructing 6245 km of roads in the Amazon may have the opposite effect of increasing forest fire in the region, and that road paving will accelerate deforestation, logging, forest fire, smoke-related illness, and displacement of small-scale farmers.
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Sensitive development could protect Amazonia instead of destroying it.
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Frontier Expansion in the Amazon: Balancing Development and Sustainability
Georgia O. Carvalho,Daniel C. Nepstad,David G. McGrath,Maria del Carmen Vera Diaz,Márcio Santilli,Ana Cristina Barros +5 more
TL;DR: The Frontier Expansion in the Amazon: Balancing Development and Sustainability Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development: Vol 44, No 3, pp 34-44.
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Sustainable development: is it achievable within the existing international political economy context?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the roots of the sustainable development concept and argue that within the current international political economic system it would be nearly impossible to adopt development strategies that are conducive to truly sustainable development.
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Environmental Resistance and the Politics of Energy Development in the Brazilian Amazon
TL;DR: The authors analyzes environmental opposition to two projects, the Urucu pipeline and the Belo Monte Dam, and concludes that environmental opposition strategies have limited effectiveness because of the project's larger context and because there are few incentives for compromise solutions.