The end of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Science

Volumn 326, Issue 5958, 2009, Pages 1350-1351

  Nepstad, Daniel ^a,b   Soares Filho, Britaldo S ^c   Merry, Frank ^a,b,i   Lima, André ^b   Moutinho, Paulo ^a,b   Carter, John ^d   Bowman, Maria ^a,b,j   Cattaneo, Andrea ^c   Rodrigues, Hermann ^e   Schwartzman, Stephan ^a,b,f   McGrath, David G ^a,b,g   Stickler, Claudia M ^e   Lubowski, Ruben ^a   Piris Cabezas, Pedro ^e,h   Rivera, Sergio ^f   Alencar, Ane ^g   Almeida, Oriana ^b,f   Stella, Osvaldo ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE PESQUISA AMBIENTAL DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^d Aliança da Terra   (Brazil)

^e ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^h FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

ⁱ GORDON AND BETTY MOORE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON EMISSION; DEFORESTATION; EMISSION CONTROL; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; MARKET TRANSITION; RAINFOREST;

BRAZIL; CLIMATE CHANGE; COST; DEFORESTATION; FUNDING; GOVERNMENT; LAW ENFORCEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; TILLAGE; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CATTLE; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; POLICY; STATISTICS; TREE;

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CATTLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; PUBLIC POLICY; TREES;

EID: 71549166046     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1182108     Document Type: Short Survey

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17. Supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (LBA-ECO), the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the David and Lucille Packard Foundation, the Electric Power Research Institute, Linden Conservation Trust, the Blue Moon Foundation, and the Global Opportunities Fund, government of the United Kingdom. K. Schwalbe assisted with editing and graphics; P. Moreira, Foster Brown, and three anonymous reviewers provided comments on an earlier draft.