Brazil Environment Library

November 2009

Edited by Professor Joseph Domask, American University, Washington, D.C.

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• What has been the effect of the new policies against deforestation in the Amazon, Paulo Barreto et al., Imazon, 3 March 2009
• Human pressure on the Brazilian Amazon forests, Paulo Barreto et al., Global Forest Watch, World Resources Institute & Imazon, 2006
• Eating up the Amazon, Greenpeace Report, 6 April 2006; Cargill's view on the Greenpeace Report, May 2006
• Containing destruction from Brazil's Amazon highways: Now is the time to give weight to the environment in decision-making, P.M. Fearnside et al., Environmental Conservation, vol. 33(3), Cambridge University Press, 12 May 2006
• The formation of the Brazilian environmental movement, Angela Alonso, Valeriano Costa & Débora Maciel, working paper no. 259, IDS-Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, England, November 2005
• The future of the Amazon, Philip M. Fearnside et al.. In: E. Bermingham, C.W. Dick and C. Moritz (eds.) Tropical rainforests: Past, present and future. University of Chicago Press, 2005
• Institutional solutions for the financing of protected areas in Brazil, Cecilia Foloni Ferraz (IBAMA-Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis), V World Parks Congress: Sustainable Finance Stream, Durban, South Africa, September 2003
• Brazilian environmental policy under Lula, Thinking Brazil, update no. 6, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., May 2003
• An Amazon perspective on the forest–climate connection: Opportunity for climate mitigation, conservation and development?, Georgia Carvalho at al., Woods Hole Research Center & Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazonia, Belem, 15 January 2003
• Brazil: Environmental institutions and governance, World Resources Institute, Earth Trends Overview, 2003
• Environment and security in the Amazon Basin, Joseph S. Tulchin & Heather A. Golding, Reports on the Americas no. 4, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., 2002
• Market potential for certified Amazon timber, Leonardo Sobral, et al., Research and Publication Support, Imazon, Belém, 2002
• Agricultural intensification by smallholders in the western Brazilian Amazon: From deforestation to sustainable land use, Stephen A.Vosti, Julie Witcover & Chantal Line Carpentier, research report no. 130, IFPRI-International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002
• O que o brasileiro pensa do meio ambiente e do consumo sustentável, Samyra Crespo & Eduardo Novaes, Instituto de Estudos da Religião-ISER & Environment Ministry, Brasilia, 2001
• Dynamics of land use in an Amazonian extractive reserve in Acre: The case of the Chico Mendes extractive reserve, Carlos V. Aguiar Gomes (MA thesis), University of Florida, 2001
• Sustainable Amazon: Limitations and opportunities for rural development, Robert R. Schneider, et al., World Bank & Imazon, Brasilia & Belem, 2000
• The economics of biodiversity in Brazil: The case of forest conversion, Ronaldo Seroa da Motta, working paper no. 433, IPEA (Research Institute of Applied Economics), Rio de Janeiro, October 1996