This policy brief presents the level of emissions from understory forest wildfires in the Amazon as a way to highlight the urgent need to protect the carbon sink and storage potential, a critical function of the Amazonian rainforests, which has been diminished.
Institutional subversion and deforestation: learning lessons from the system for the environmental licencing of rural properties in Mato Grosso
Institutional subversion and deforestation: learning lessons from the system for the environmental licencing of rural properties in Mato Grosso
Following the influential Brundtland Report, environmental preservation, social welfare and economic growth ceased to be seen as opposite objectives, but rather, were considered as pillars of what came to be known as ‘sustainable development’ (WCED, 1987). In order...