Environmental policy in Brazilian Amazonia

Lessons from recent history

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4153217
AutoresPhilip M Fearnside (0000-0003-3672-9082, Amazon (United States), autor correspondente)
Ano2016
Volume19
Fascículo1
Data de publicação2016-06-23
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoNovos Cadernos NAEA (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1516-6481 • E-ISSN: 2179-7536
EditoraUniversidade Federal do Para (PUBLISHER • BR)
DOI10.5801/ncn.v19i1.1379
OpenAlexW2498265331
IdiomaIT
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas14

Tropical forest in Brazil, as in other countries, faces threats stemming from decision making that favors destructive development and gives only token consideration to lost environmental services and other impacts. History, particularly the most relevant period covering the recent years of rapid development in Amazonia, is a source of useful lessons for changing the decision-making process to favor outcomes that are less destructive and more sustainable. Development decisions set processes in motion with consequences extending far into the future, adding urgency to the task of assimilating these lessons. Decisions in the coming decade will determine the fate of Brazil's Amazon forest, as is also the case for other countries that could benefit from the lessons of recent history in Brazil

Amazon rainforest · Business · Economics · Environmental planning · Environmental protection · Environmental resource management · Geography · Natural resource economics · Political science · Sustainable development · Agricultural Innovations and Practices · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Environmental Science · Law · Ecology