Enforcement Evasion Highlights Need for Better Satellite‐Based Forest Governance

Abstract Our recent article, “Are Brazil's Deforesters Avoiding Detection?” demonstrated that focusing illegal deforestation enforcement on the subset of forest monitored by the flagship PRODES system has caused PRODES to capture a declining share of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Defor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Peter Richards, Avery S. Cohn, Eugenio Arima, Leah VanWey, Nishan Bhattarai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2017-07-01
Series:Conservation Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12379