| 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.