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Environmental services as a strategy for sustainable development in rural Amazonia
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In this article, the authors focus on tapping environmental services as a long-term strategy for maintaining both rainforest and its population in rural Amazonia, and propose to convert forest environmental services into an income stream, and how to convert this stream into a foundation for sustainable development.About:
This article is published in Ecological Economics.The article was published on 1997-01-01. It has received 157 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sustainable development & Population.read more
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Deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia: History, Rates, and Consequences
TL;DR: Brazil's Amazon forest remained largely intact until the "modern" era of deforestation began with the inauguration of the Transamazon Highway in 1970, but deforestation rates have trended upward since 1991, with clearing proceeding at a variable but always rapid pace.
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The Future of the Brazilian Amazon
William F. Laurance,Mark A. Cochrane,Scott Bergen,Philip M. Fearnside,Patricia Delamônica,Christopher Barber,Sammya D'Angelo,Tito Fernandes +7 more
TL;DR: The authors developed two computer models that integrate spatial data on deforestation, logging, mining, highways and roads, navigable rivers, vulnerability to wildfires, protected areas, and existing and planned infrastructure projects, in an effort to predict the condition of Brazilian Amazonian forests by the year 2020.
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The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity: Recent Instances for Debate
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review several approaches to include economic considerations in biodiversity conservation, and show cases where monetary valuation is relevant and other cases where it is controversial and even counterproductive, as it undermines the objectives of conservation.
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Soybean cultivation as a threat to the environment in Brazil
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an up-to-date review of the advance of soybeans in Brazil, its environmental and social costs and implications for development policy, and they assess the costs of social and environmental impacts associated with soybean expansion, including mechanisms for commitments not to implant specific infrastructure projects that are judged to have excessive impacts.
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Global warming and tropical land-use change: greenhouse gas emissions from biomass burning, decomposition and soils in forest conversion, shifting cultivation and secondary vegetation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that tropical forest conversion, shifting cultivation and clearing of secondary vegetation make significant contributions to global emissions of greenhouse gases today, and have the potential for large additional emissions in future decades.
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The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital
Robert Costanza,Rudolf de Groot,Stephen Farberk,Monica Grasso,Bruce Hannon,Karin E. Limburg,Shahid Naeem,José M. Paruelo,Robert Raskin,Paul Suttonkk,Marjan van den Belt +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors have estimated the current economic value of 17 ecosystem services for 16 biomes, based on published studies and a few original calculations, for the entire biosphere, the value (most of which is outside the market) is estimated to be in the range of US$16-54 trillion (10^(12)) per year, with an average of US $33 trillion per year.
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Indicators for Monitoring Biodiversity: A Hierarchical Approach
TL;DR: The three primay attributes of biodiversity recognized by Jerry Franklin are expanded into a nested hierarcby that incorporates ele- ments of each attribute at four levels of organization: re- gional landscape, community-ecosystem, population- species, andgenetic.
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Valuation of an Amazonian rainforest
TL;DR: Exploitation of non-wood resources would provide profits while conserving Amazon forests as discussed by the authors, yet little is done to promote their development, which is a concern of mine owners.
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Economic and Environmental Benefits of Biodiversity
David Pimentel,Christa Wilson,Christine McCullum,Rachel Huang,Paulette Dwen,Jessica Flack,Quynh Tran,Tamara Saltman,Barbara Cliff +8 more
TL;DR: The rapidly growing world population and increased human activity threaten many of these species, including species that provide humans with essential medicines and other diverse, useful products.
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Recycling of water in the Amazon Basin: An isotopic study
TL;DR: The oxygen-18 content of precipitation in the Amazon basin is characterized by a very small inland gradient, 0.75 × 10−3 ‰ km−1 as discussed by the authors, which is a consequence of the large contribution of reevaporated moisture to the basin's water balance.