Environmental Destruction in the Brazilian Amazon

Philip Fearnside

Chapter 8 in The Future of Amazonia, 1990, pp 179-225 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Environmental destruction in Amazonia takes many forms, such as deforestation, loss of animal and plant populations from the remaining forest, disturbance and pollution from mining, flooding by hydroelectric dams, and elimination of tribal peoples and their cultures. The various types of destruction are all linked to the advance of deforestation. The vast extent and explosive rate of deforestation hastens the demise of natural ecosystems, closes the door to the most promising human uses of the region and provokes impacts that are regional, and in some cases global, in scope.

Keywords: Black Pepper; Amazonian Forest; Cattle Pasture; Agrarian Reform; Exponential Trend (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1990
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-21068-8_8

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