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Author: Walter Vergara
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: dieback, amazon, risk, assessment
Number of Pages: 116
Published: 2010-11-11
ISBN-10: 0821386212
ISBN-13: 9780821386217
The Amazon basin is a key component of the global carbon cycle. Not only is the old-growth rainforests in the basin huge carbon storage with about 120 billion metric tons of carbon in their biomass, but they also process annually twice the rate of global anthropogenic fossil fuel emissions through respiration and photosynthesis. In addition, the basin is the largest global repository of biodiversity and produces about 20 percent of the world "s flow of fresh water into the oceans.Despite the large CO2 efflux from recent deforestation, the Amazon rainforest is still considered to be a net carbo
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Author: Robert R. Schneider
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: rural, development, opportunities, limitations, amazon, sustainable
Number of Pages: 70
Published: 2002-07
ISBN-10: 0821350315
ISBN-13: 9780821350317
There is an ongoing debate over the future of the Amazon in Brazil. Part of this debate involves the question of whether or not it is possible to ensure development in the region while conserving its immense natural heritage.This report adds to the discussion of land use in the Brazilian Amazon. It analyzes the harmful effects of increasing levels of rainfall on agricultural settlement and productivity. The aim of this report is to assist decision-makers, civil society, and the private sector in their attempts to ensure that natural resources will be maintained in such a way that best maximize
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Author: Andrea Cattaneo
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Keywords: brazilian, amazon, deforestation, development, agricultural, balancing
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 2002-08
ISBN-10: 0896291308
ISBN-13: 9780896291300
Since the 1970s, federal policies promoting migration and encouraging agricultural development of large farms, logging, and ranching have led to the deforestation of vast areas of the Amazon rainforest.Though these policies have largely been replaced, deforestation continues.What effects do current macroeconomic and regional policies and events have on deforestation and on the well-being of settlers on the agricultural frontier? This report identifies the links between the agriculture and logging sectors in the Amazon, economic growth, poverty alleviation, and natural resource degradation in t
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Author: Unknown
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: amazon, brazilian, deforestation, drives
Number of Pages: 56
Published: 1997
eBookDB-ID: GGKEY:24SS
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Author: Patrick Stähler
Publisher: Amazon.de
Keywords: strategien, und, auswirkungen, merkmale, �konomie, der, digitalen, gesch�ftsmodelle
Number of Pages: 354
Published: 2002-10
ISBN-10: 3899360133
ISBN-13: 9783899360134
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Authors: David M Diez, Christopher D Barr, Mine Çetinkaya
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Keywords: second, statistics, openintro
Number of Pages: 426
Published: 2012-07-26
ISBN-10: 1478217200
ISBN-13: 9781478217206
The OpenIntro project was founded in 2009 to improve the quality and availability of education by producing exceptional books and teaching tools that are free to use and easy to modify. Our inaugural effort is OpenIntro Statistics. Probability is optional, inference is key, and we feature real data whenever possible. Files for the entire book are freely available at openintro.org, and anybody can purchase a paperback copy from amazon.com for under $10. The future for OpenIntro depends on the involvement and enthusiasm of our community. Visit our website, openintro.org. We provide free course
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