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Brazil’s Amazonian protected areas as a bulwark against regional climate change

Regional Environmental Change, ISSN: 1436-378X, Vol: 18, Issue: 2, Page: 573-579
2018
  • 31
    Citations
  • 0
    Usage
  • 98
    Captures
  • 0
    Mentions
  • 2
    Social Media
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  • Citations
    31
    • Citation Indexes
      25
    • Policy Citations
      6
      • Policy Citation
        6
  • Captures
    98
  • Social Media
    2
    • Shares, Likes & Comments
      2
      • Facebook
        2

Article Description

Brazil’s Amazonian protected areas play an important role in maintaining the environmental services of the region, including Amazonia’s role in regional and global climate. These protected areas face threats both from deforestation and from degradation of standing forest. Preserving carbon stocks in protected areas is important both because of the climatic benefit of avoiding greenhouse gas emissions and because of the potential to provide a monetary value that contributes to supporting local human populations in ways that maintain rather than destroy the forest. REDD+ represents one potential mechanism for maintaining these areas. A variety of legal threats to protected areas in Brazilian Amazonia has arisen, leading to concern over the future of these areas and their role as a bulwark against regional climate change.

Bibliographic Details

Euler Melo Nogueira; Aurora Miho Yanai; Sumaia Saldanha de Vasconcelos; Paulo Maurício Lima de Alencastro Graça; Philip Martin Fearnside

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Environmental Science

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