Approximately 2.5× 106 square kilometers of the Amazon forest are currently degraded by
fire, edge effects, timber extraction, and/or extreme drought, representing 38% of all …

Ongoing deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is the outcome of an explicit federal project to
occupy, integrate, and “modernize” the region. Although there have been isolated periods of …

Despite efforts to reduce deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, there has been an up-turn in
clearing rates since 2012. These increases are in part due to failures in deforestation …

With humanity facing an unprecedented climate crisis, the conservation of tropical forests
has never been so important–their vast terrestrial carbon stocks can be turned into …

Abstract The Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal
Amazon (PPCDAm), launched in 2004, promoted a drastic conservation reform in Brazil. To …

The built environment is hard to decarbonize but has a pivotal role in climate-change
mitigation amid rapid urbanization. Substituting conventional building materials with bio …

If current trends continue, the tropical forests of the Anthropocene will be much smaller,
simpler, steeper and emptier than they are today. They will be more diminished in size and …

Forest restoration is a strategy to reverse forest loss and degradation. We overviewed
deforestation in the period 1975–2018 in the Brazilian Amazon and the projects, techniques …

Abstract In 2006, the Brazilian Forest Service (SFB) started an ambitious program to
establish forest concessions so as to provide a legal framework for long-term sustainable …

We examine deforestation processes in Apuí, a deforestation hotspot in Brazil's state of
Amazonas and present processes of land-use change on this Amazonian development …