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Title: | Deforestation control in the Brazilian Amazon: A conservation struggle being lost as agreements and regulations are subverted and bypassed |
Authors: | Carvalho, William Douglas de Mustin, Karen Hilário, Renato Richard Vasconcelos, Ivan M. Eilers, Vivianne Fearnside, Philip Martin |
Issue Date: | 2019 |
metadata.dc.publisher.journal: | Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation |
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: | Volume 17, Número 3, Pags. 122-130 |
Abstract: | Despite efforts to reduce deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, there has been an up-turn in clearing rates since 2012. These increases are in part due to failures in deforestation control. Soybean planters, cattle ranchers, and timber merchants find ways to circumvent agreements and legislation. Here we explain some of the key problems with the implementation of the principal agreements and Brazilian laws that should be keeping clearing rates under control. To combat increased clearing in the Amazon, we suggest an urgent need to strengthen Brazilian environmental agencies, improve technologies used to monitor the effectiveness of clearing-reduction programmes, better integrate agrarian and environmental policies and integrate environmental enforcement across federal, state and municipal governments, as well as improve transparency along global supply chains and raise awareness among consumers to put market pressure on producers to avoid new deforestation. © 2019 Associação Brasileira de Ciência Ecológica e Conservação |
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: | 10.1016/j.pecon.2019.06.002 |
Appears in Collections: | Artigos |
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