Philip Fearnside

Biographic Data

ID900154
NAMEPhilip Fearnside
GIVEN NAMESPhilip
FAMILY NAMEFearnside
SIGNATUREFEARNSIDE P
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS14
WORKS AS AUTHOR4
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX2

  • Brazil's Iguaçu National Park threatened by illegal activities

    Open AccessVictor Mateus Prasniewski, Neucir Szinwelski et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    The spectacularly biodiverse Atlantic Forest of South America has been reduced to fragmented remnants. The largest remaining inland fragment is protected by national parks on either side of the iconic Iguassu Falls on the border between Brazil and Argentina. Biodiversity in the parks has been under pressure from illegal activities such as commercial hunting, fishing and extraction of palm hearts. A proposed road through Brazil’s Igua\c{c}u Nation…

  • Gases de Efeito Estufa no EIA-Rima da Hidrelétrica de Belo Monte

    Open AccessPhilip M Fearnside, Philip FearnsideARTICLENovos Cadernos NAEA2011Cited by: 6

    The Environmental Impact Study (EIA) for the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam proposed for construction by Brazil's federal government on the Xingu River in Pará shows how little the environmental review process has advanced in Brazil since 1986, when the EIA became mandatory for dams and other infrastructure projects. The document completely avoids the major impacts that the dam would have in inducing destruction of much wider areas upstream of the …

  • The causes of tropical deforestation

    Open AccessPhilip M Fearnside, Philip FearnsideARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change1996Cited by: 8

  • Processos predatórios na floresta tropical úmida da Amazônia Brasileira

    Open AccessPhilip M Fearnside, Philip FearnsideARTICLEEstudos Avançados1989

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