While many goverment policies stimulating deforestation have been reserved, private sector lobbies for uncontrolled logging and soybean export corridors threaten the Amazon. Under a favorable scenario (macroeconomic stabilization, controlled logging and road building, sustainable technologies, global environmental markets) reconversion of natural habitat could be 30% lower than under unfavorable policies and technologies, without sacrificing production
Publication year
1998
Authors
Smith, J.; Winograd, M.; Gallopin, G.; Pachico, D.
Language
English
Keywords
agriculture, savannas, policy, technology, environmental degradation
Geographic
Brazil
