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Environmental Destruction in the Brazilian Amazon

In: The Future of Amazonia

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  • Philip M. Fearnside

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Environmental destruction in Amazonia takes many forms, such as deforestation, loss of animal and plant populations from the remaining forest, disturbance and pollution from mining, flooding by hydroelectric dams, and elimination of tribal peoples and their cultures. The various types of destruction are all linked to the advance of deforestation. The vast extent and explosive rate of deforestation hastens the demise of natural ecosystems, closes the door to the most promising human uses of the region and provokes impacts that are regional, and in some cases global, in scope.

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  • Philip M. Fearnside, 1990. "Environmental Destruction in the Brazilian Amazon," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: David Goodman & Anthony Hall (ed.), The Future of Amazonia, chapter 8, pages 179-225, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-21068-8_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-21068-8_8
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    1. Weslem Rodrigues Faria & Admir Antônio Betarelli Júnior & Rosa Lívia Gonçalves Montenegro, 2019. "Multidimensional characteristics and deforestation: an analysis for the Brazilian Legal Amazon," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 53(4), pages 1959-1979, July.

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