Global demand for steel drives extensive land-use change in Brazil's Iron Quadrangle

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 63-72

  Sonter, Laura J ^a   Barrett, Damian J ^a,b   Soares Filho, Britaldo S ^c   Moran, Chris J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Atlantic Forest; Charcoal; Deforestation; Mining; Plantations; Regrowth

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CHARCOAL; IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY; IRON ORE; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT; MINING INDUSTRY; NONRENEWABLE RESOURCE; PLANTATION; REGROWTH; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

ATLANTIC FOREST; BRAZIL; IRON QUADRANGLE; MINAS GERAIS;

EID: 84901404717     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.03.014     Document Type: Article

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