Description: Measuring the Initial Impacts on Deforestation of Mato Grosso's Program for Environmental Control

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Measuring the Initial Impacts on Deforestation of Mato Grosso's Program for Environmental Control

Although private forest use in Brazil has been regulated at least since the Forest Code of 1965, cumulative deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon reached 653,000 k

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Main Authors:	Chomitz, Kenneth M., Wertz-Kanounnikoff, Sheila
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	AGRICULTURAL EXPANSION AGRICULTURAL LAND AGRICULTURE CATTLE CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK CONSERVATION CULTIVATION DEFORESTATION DEFORESTATION RATES ECONOMIC CONDITIONS ENVIRONMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION EXCHANGE RATE FOREST FOREST AREAS FOREST CODE FOREST CONVERSION FOREST COVER FOREST FIRES FOREST PATCH FOREST RESERVE FORESTS GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM ILLEGAL DEFORESTATION LAND COVER LAND USE LANDOWNER LANDSCAPE NATIVE VEGETATION NATURE PERMANENT PRESERVATION POLLUTION PRIVATE PROPERTY RATE OF DEFORESTATION REMOTE SENSING SATELLITE IMAGERY SMALLER PATCHES SOIL MOISTURE SOUTH AMERICAN STREAMS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TROPICAL FOREST VEGETATION WETLANDS WOODLAND WOODLANDS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/11/6380768/measuring-initial-impacts-deforestation-mato-grossos-program-environmental-control http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8483

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Summary:	Although private forest use in Brazil has been regulated at least since the Forest Code of 1965, cumulative deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon reached 653,000 k