SAVING TROPICAL FORESTS AS A GLOBAL WARMING COUNTERMEASURE: AN ISSUE THAT DIVIDES THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT

By Philip Martin Fearnside. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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• Deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia: History, Rates, and Consequences (2005, background): “Infrastructure development unleashes an insidious chain of investment and profiteering that can be expected to destroy more forest than the plantations themselves (Fearnside 2001c).”
• When family matters: an analysis of Thelotremataceae (Lichenized Ascomycota: Ostropales) as bioindicators of ecological continuity in tropical forests (2008, background): “…et al. 2002; ITTO 2002), contributing not only to regional and global climate change (Shukla et al. 1990; Still et al. 1999; Malhi and Grace 2000; Fearnside 2000, 2001; Lawton et al. 2001; Defries et al. 2002; Fearnside and Laurance 2004) but also the extinction of thousands of species (Lewin…”