Linking spatial patterns of land-use to agents of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Changes in land use and land cover are associated with many environmental issues observed on the earth’s surface. In the last decades, these changes were unprece-dented, mainly in tropical forest areas. The Brazilian Amazon, the world’s largest tropical forest, lost around 200.000 km² of primary for...
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Universite catholique de Louvain
2008
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| Online Access: | http://edoc.bib.ucl.ac.be:81/ETD-db/collection/available/BelnUcetd-04042008-154955/ |