Deforestation control in Mato Grosso: A new model for slowing the loss of Brazil's Amazon Forest

Ambio

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 343-345

  Fearnside, Philip M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; REGULATORY APPROACH;

BRAZIL; MATO GROSSO DO SUL STATE;

CAESALPINIA CILIATA;

EID: 0041785394     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-32.5.343     Document Type: Short Survey

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