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Enhanced: Frontier Governance in Amazonia
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D. Nepstad
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Science 25 January 2002: Vol. 295. no. 5555, pp. 629 - 631 DOI: 10.1126/science.1067053 Keyword: Environment, Land Policy and Geographic Information Systems
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ENVIRONMENT:
Enhanced: Frontier Governance in Amazonia
D. Nepstad,* D. McGrath, A. Alencar, A. C. Barros, G. Carvalho, M. Santilli, M. del C. Vera Diaz Throughout human history, the world's great forest formations have yielded to logging, cattle ranching, and agricultural expansion after transportation corridors made them accessible to frontier settlers. The Brazilian Amazon could prove to be an exception to this historical trend, however. Recent advances in Brazil's environmental management could potentially preserve most Amazonian forests while fostering economic development, as demonstrated by the Cuiabéa -Santarém highway, soon to be paved.
D. Nepstad, D. McGrath, and G. Carvalho are at The Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC), Woods Hole, MA 02543-0296, USA. All of the authors are with the Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia, (IPAM) Av. Nazaré, 669 Bairro: Nazaré, 66035-170 Belém, Pará, Brazil. D. McGrath is with the Universidade Federal Do Pará (UFPa) Av. Augusto Correa, no. 01, Campus da Universidade-Guamá, CEP 66.059, Belém, Pará, Brazil.
*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: dnepstad@whrc.org
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