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Simulating Deforestation in Minas Gerais, Brazil, under Changing Government Policies and Socioeconomic Conditions

Agricultural expansion is causing deforestation in Minas Gerais, Brazil, converting savanna and tropical dry forest to farmland, and in 2012, Brazil’s Forest Code was revised with the government reducing deforestation restrictions. Understanding the effects of policy change on rates and locations of...

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Autores principales: Stan, Kayla, Sanchez-Azofeifa, Arturo, Espírito-Santo, Mário, Portillo-Quintero, Carlos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4570775/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26371876
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0137911