Development, environmental degradation, and disease spread in the Brazilian Amazon.

Development, environmental degradation, and disease spread in the Brazilian Amazon.

The Amazon is Brazil's greatest natural resource and invaluable to the rest of the world as a buffer against climate change. The recent election of Brazil's president brought disputes over development plans for the region back into the spotlight. Historically, the development model for the...

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Main Authors: Marcia C Castro, Andres Baeza, Cláudia Torres Codeço, Zulma M Cucunubá, Ana Paula Dal'Asta, Giulio A De Leo, Andrew P Dobson, Gabriel Carrasco-Escobar, Raquel Martins Lana, Rachel Lowe, Antonio Miguel Vieira Monteiro, Mercedes Pascual, Mauricio Santos-Vega
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-11-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000526

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000526

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