This is a commentary on Morton et al article “Cropland expansion changes deforestation dynamics in the southern Brazilian Amazon. Besides the comments, it presents a forest monitoring program that integrates de approach developed by Morton et al with other techniques and tools already developed. It also indicates future research activities and land-use policy applications that will be facilitated by the remote-sensing techniques developed by Morton et al : a) improving carbon flux models; b) licensing, command control, and law enforcement; c) agribusiness market regulation, and d) modeling deforestation dynamics.
Both articles are available to subscribers at PNAS’s website ( www.pnas.org ).
This post was published on 19 de September de 2006
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