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Human Pressure on the Brazilian Amazon Forests

Paulo Barreto, Carlos Souza Jr., Ruth Nogueron, Anthony Anderson and Rodney Salomao. In collaboration with Janice Wiles

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  • An Overview of the Findings and Maps in Human Pressure on the Brazilian Amazon Forests: March 2006 (1.0 Mb)
  • Full text: Human Pressure on the Brazilian Amazon Forests (4.0 Mb)
  • Executive summary (73 Kb)
  • Chapter 1. Introduction (273 Kb)
  • Chapter 2. Background and trends in human occupation in the Brazilian Amazon (1.4 Mb)
  • Chapter 3. Mapping human pressure in the Brazilian Amazon (64 Kb)
  • Chapter 4. Human pressure in the Brazilian Amazon: Results and discussion (695 Kb)
  • Chapter 5. Human pressure and protected areas: Results and discussion (1000 Kb)
  • Chapter 6. Conclusions and recommendations (58 Kb)
  • Notes (46 Kb)
  • Appendix 1. Protected areas in Brazil (44 Kb)
  • Appendix 2. Economic accessibility of logging (420 Kb)
  • References (85 Kb)

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