Defending public interests in private lands: Compliance, costs and potential environmental consequences of the Brazilian Forest Code in Mato Grosso

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1619, 2013, Pages

  Stickler, Claudia M ^a   Nepstad, Daniel C ^a   Azevedo, Andrea A ^b   McGrath, David G ^a,c  

^a Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM)   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE PESQUISA AMBIENTAL DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^c WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon; Deforestation; Ecosystem services; Environmental policy; Forest governance; Land use regulation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; CATTLE; COMPLIANCE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DEFORESTATION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INCENTIVE; LAND USE PLANNING; LANDOWNER; PRIVATE LAND; SOYBEAN; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY;

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL; MATO GROSSO;

EID: 84876468460     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0160     Document Type: Article

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