'Brazilian amazon' presentation slideshows

Brazil Environmental Economics

Brazil Environmental Economics. Alyssa Cobus Madeline Mitchell Matthew Ferrara Doreen Brown . OUTLINE. I Introduction II Environmental Policies in Brazil III Pollution as Negative Externality IV Incomplete Market V Solution to complete Market

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What is the project?

Biodiversity Implications of Forest Disturbance and Related Landscape Dynamics in the Brazilian Amazon (Year 2). Mark A. Cochrane 1,2 , David P. Roy 1 , Carlos Souza Jr. 2 , Jos Barlow 3 , Eugenio Arima 4 , Izaya Numata 1 , Christopher P. Barber 1,2 ,

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What is the project?

Biodiversity Implications of Forest Disturbance and Related Landscape Dynamics in the Brazilian Amazon (Year 2). Mark A. Cochrane 1,2 , David P. Roy 1 , Carlos Souza Jr. 2 , Jos Barlow 3 , Eugenio Arima 4 , Izaya Numata 1 , Christopher P. Barber 1,2 ,

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Organizing Living Things

Cunningham, Cunningham 2002. Organizing Living Things. Organism Population Biological Community Ecosystem Biosphere. Food Web: Cross-connected Food Chains. Cunningham, Cunningham 2002. Cunningham, Cunningham 2002. Where do humans fit in?.

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Logging in the Brazilian Amazon

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Will cattle ranching continue to drive deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon?

Will cattle ranching continue to drive deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon?. Paulo Barreto Senior Researcher at IMAZON. 15% deforested up to 2009. Pastureland ocupies 75% of the area deforested. Will cattle ranching continue to drive deforestation?. What has driven deforestation?.

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The Global Land Cover Facility

The Global Land Cover Facility. Presentation for WGISS-25 February 26, 2008 University of Maryland, Department of Geography. What is the GLCF?. A Non-Governmental Science Information Center Making quality Earth science data easily available to researchers

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Combining Population and Environmental Data

Combining Population and Environmental Data A Typology Approach based on Patterns and its Generative Processes Building up Trajectories of Patterns of Land Cover Change.

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Globalization, Deforestation, and the Expansion of the Cattle Industry into the Brazilian Amazon

Globalization, Deforestation, and the Expansion of the Cattle Industry into the Brazilian Amazon. John O. Browder (Virginia Tech) Robert T. Walker (Michigan State University) 2007 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, California.

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LATIN AMERICA AND GLOBAL GHG EMISSIONS

LATIN AMERICA AND GLOBAL GHG EMISSIONS. TROPICAL DEFORESTATION. (c) WWF-Canon / Juan PRATGINESTOS. GLOBAL CO2 EMISSIONS AND DEFORESTATION. ~80% Fossil Fuel ~20% Land Deforestation. DEFORESTATION VS FOSSIL FUELS. MAJOR DEFORESTATION COUNTRIES (2000). GHGs (MtC eq). WRI (2005).

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Geographical Data Mining

Geographical Data Mining. Thales Sehn Korting tkorting@dpi.inpe.br http://www.dpi.inpe.br/~tkorting/. Motivation. Large datasets Few data manipulation techniques Few information extraction tools [Silva 2005] prototype system for mining patterns applied to Brazilian Amazon deforestation.

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Deforestation

Deforestation. A case of Amazon Basin. Human activities in Amazon. Impact of human activities. Slash-and-burn Shifting cultivation. Slash-and-burn.

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Deforestation and Slash and Burn Agriculture

Deforestation and Slash and Burn Agriculture. Definitions and Introduction. -Slash and Burn Agriculture *Slashing and burning of forest vegetation to inject nutrients from ash into soil - Deforestation *Clearing of trees in a forest

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Logging in the Brazilian Amazon and Enforcement of Forest Laws

Logging in the Brazilian Amazon and Enforcement of Forest Laws. Brenda Brito Assistant Researcher and Vice-Executive Director of Imazon brendabrito@imazon.org.br Illegal Logging Update and Stakeholder Consultation London - January 20th, 2006. Logging frontiers and timber production.

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Christopher Potter , NASA Ames Research Center, cpotter@mail.arc.nasa

Recent Progress in Measuring and Modeling Patterns of Biomass and Soil Carbon Pools Across the Amazon Basin. Christopher Potter , NASA Ames Research Center, cpotter@mail.arc.nasa.gov Yadvinder Mahli , University of Edinburgh y.malhi@ed.ac.uk

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Machadinho d’Oeste and Vale do Anari in the State of Rondônia

1988. 1994. Machadinho. Anari. 1998. Amazon River. Similar biophysical features Similar settlement age: early 80’s Similar assets among colonists. Land-Use/Land-Cover Dynamics. Rondônia. Different architectures Different institutions.

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