Economic losses to sustainable timber production by fire in the Brazilian Amazon.
Although still the largest expanse of tropical rainforests in the world, the Amazon is suffering a declining capacity to deliver ecosystem services, to which the widespread use of fire is one of the main contributing factors. Even if fires directly affect the timber sector, most current logging prac...
| Publicado en: | Geographical Journal Vol. 185; no. 1; pp. 55 - 68 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2019
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