Protected areas?impacts on Brazilian Amazon deforestation: Examining conservation - Development interactions to inform planning

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Pfaff, Alexander ^a   Robalino, Juan ^b,c   Herrera, Diego ^a   Sandoval, Catalina ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CATIE   (Costa Rica)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

AMAZON; APPLE; ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; BRAZILIAN; COST; CULTIVATED LAND; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ETHNIC GROUP; FOREST; HUMAN; LANDSCAPE; PREDICTION; PROTECTED AREA; SLOPE FACTOR; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL QUALITY; VEGETATION; BRAZIL; CITY; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTRY; POLICY; PROCEDURES; SOCIAL CHANGE;

BRAZIL; CITIES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTRY; FORESTS; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL PLANNING;

EID: 84941975691     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0129460     Document Type: Article

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