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Article: Searching for sustainability: forest policies, smallholders, and the Trans-Amazon Highway.
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- Environment
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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It is a powerful and disturbing image: loggers driving roads deep into the forest to remove a few mahogany trees, with slash-and-burn settlers following closely on their heels. However, it no longer captures the whole picture of logging in the Brazilian Amazon. So, then, what is the role of logging in the impoverishment or potential conservation of the Amazon rainforest? The answer to this question is deceptively complex: To achieve a sustainable future in Amazon forestry, policymakers and stakeholders must understand the physical, economic and political dimensions of competing land use options and economic interests. They must provide effective governance for multiple ...
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