Role of Brazilian Amazon protected areas in climate change mitigation

Soares‐Filho, Britaldo; Moutinho, Paulo; C. Nepstad, Daniel; Β. Anderson, Anthony; Rodrigues, Hermann; Garcı́a, Ricardo; Dietzsch, Laura; Merry, Frank; Bowman, Maria; de Barros Viana Hissa, Letícia; Almeida Silvestrini, Rafaella; C. Maretti, Cláudio

doi:10.1073/pnas.0913048107

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Role of Brazilian Amazon protected areas in climate change mitigation

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences • May 26, 2010

Authors:

Britaldo Soares‐Filho

Paulo Moutinho

Daniel C. Nepstad

Abstract

Protected areas (PAs) now shelter 54% of the remaining forests of the Brazilian Amazon and contain 56% of its forest carbon. However, the role of these PAs in reducing carbon fluxes to the atmosphere from deforestation and their associated costs are still uncertain. To fill this gap, we analyzed the...

Subject

Amazon rainforest

Deforestation (computer science)

Natural resource economics

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