The use of fire as an agricultural tool perpetuates in Brazilian Amazon, despite its negative socioeconomic, environmental and public health impacts. Two topics of the problem are investigated, by looking to the current period (2009-2010) and for three municipalities of the State of Pará, namely Santarém, Belterra and Paragominas. The analysis is restricted to motivations and consequences with strictly economic nature and fires linked with deforestation are kept out of the scope of analysis. Slash and Burn Agriculture (S&BA) is practiced by smallholders mainly for growing annual crops. The first essay demonstrates that the profitability of S&BA is governed by the trade-off between cost-free fertilization through the burning of secondary veg...
The accelerated rate of land usage and the heightened incidence of fire points as historically seen ...
The emission of CO2 is an important cause of the greenhouse effect and the Amazonian burns contribut...
The emission of CO2 is an important cause of the greenhouse effect and the Amazonian burns contribut...
The use of fire as an agricultural tool perpetuates in Brazilian Amazon, despite its negative socioe...
Fire is a constant in rural areas throughout the Brazilian Amazon, both as intentional burning and a...
The disordered occupation in the Amazon, the population growth due the National Integration Plan and...
The Amazon is constituted today as the largest tropical rain forest remnant and continuous world and...
The disordered occupation of the Amazon, along with the increasing population caused by the National...
The use of fire as a way of cleaning the soil is widely inserted in the productive process of the Am...
The agricultural fires observed in the Brazilian Amazon have an inherent duality of being both effic...
O fogo florestal estabelece uma função ecológica na produtividade de diversos ecossistemas. No entan...
In the Amazon, most different types of soil are poor, so the smallholder depends on burning the accu...
Between 1998 and 2017, climate-related disasters represented 91% of all occurrences worldwide, causi...
Amazonia possesses some of the highest levels of biodiversity the planet, and has a population of 25...
The accelerated rate of land usage and the heightened incidence of fire points as historically seen ...
The accelerated rate of land usage and the heightened incidence of fire points as historically seen ...
The emission of CO2 is an important cause of the greenhouse effect and the Amazonian burns contribut...
The emission of CO2 is an important cause of the greenhouse effect and the Amazonian burns contribut...
The use of fire as an agricultural tool perpetuates in Brazilian Amazon, despite its negative socioe...
Fire is a constant in rural areas throughout the Brazilian Amazon, both as intentional burning and a...
The disordered occupation in the Amazon, the population growth due the National Integration Plan and...
The Amazon is constituted today as the largest tropical rain forest remnant and continuous world and...
The disordered occupation of the Amazon, along with the increasing population caused by the National...
The use of fire as a way of cleaning the soil is widely inserted in the productive process of the Am...
The agricultural fires observed in the Brazilian Amazon have an inherent duality of being both effic...
O fogo florestal estabelece uma função ecológica na produtividade de diversos ecossistemas. No entan...
In the Amazon, most different types of soil are poor, so the smallholder depends on burning the accu...
Between 1998 and 2017, climate-related disasters represented 91% of all occurrences worldwide, causi...
Amazonia possesses some of the highest levels of biodiversity the planet, and has a population of 25...
The accelerated rate of land usage and the heightened incidence of fire points as historically seen ...
The accelerated rate of land usage and the heightened incidence of fire points as historically seen ...
The emission of CO2 is an important cause of the greenhouse effect and the Amazonian burns contribut...
The emission of CO2 is an important cause of the greenhouse effect and the Amazonian burns contribut...