Natural resource management in the brazilian Amazon: an integrated research approach

Título	Natural Resource Management in the Brazilian Amazon
Autores	Christopher Uhl (a) Paulo Barreto (b) Adalberto Veríssimo (b) Edson Vidal (b) Paulo Amaral (b) Ana Cristina Barros (b) Carlos Souza, Jr. (b) Jennifer Johns (c) Jeffrey Gerwing (c)
Vinculação dos autores	(a) Instituto do Homem e Meio Ambiente da Amazônia (Imazon) – Belém (PA), Brasil Biology Department, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA (b) Instituto do Homem e Meio Ambiente da Amazônia (Imazon) – Belém (PA), Brasil (c) Rutgers University, Ecology and Evolution Program, Cook College, New Brunswick, NJ
Ano de publicação	1997
Meio de publicação	BioScience, 47(3), 160-168

Abstract The Amazon region of Brazil contains billions of cubic meters of high-quality wood whose overall value after sawing would be several trillion dollars. Given this timber wealth, it is com- mon to consider forestry as the natu- ral vocation for Amazonia (Pandolfo 1974). Already, well over half of the wood consumed in Brazil comes from Amazonia, and this domestic demand for Amazonian roundwood is ex- pected to grow (Verissimo et al. 1992). Foreign consumption of Amazonian wood, although low at present, is also likely to increase as Asian tropical hardwood stocks decline. Download