Simulating the response of land-cover changes to road paving and governance along a major Amazon highway: The Santarém-Cuiabá corridor

Global Change Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 745-764

  Soares Filho, Britaldo ^a   Alencar, Ane ^b   Nepstad, Daniel ^b,c   Cerqueira, Gustavo ^a   Del Carmen Vera Diaz, Maria ^b   Rivero, Sérgio ^b   Solórzano, Luis ^c   Voll, Eliane ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO DE PESQUISA AMBIENTAL DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^c WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon; Land cover change; Policy intervention scenario; Simulation model

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING;

BRAZIL; MATO GROSSO; SOUTH AMERICA;

CAESALPINIA CILIATA; GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 2642519767     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2003.00769.x     Document Type: Article

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