Producer and consumer responsibility for greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural production—a perspective from the Brazilian Amazon
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Greenhouse gas emissions from alternative futures of deforestation and agricultural management in the southern Amazon.
The Brazilian Amazon is one of the most rapidly developing agricultural areas in the world and represents a potentially large future source of greenhouse gases from land clearing and subsequent agricultural management. In an integrated approach, we estimate the greenhouse gas dynamics of natural ecosystems and agricultural ecosystems after clearing in the context of a future climate. We examine...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Research Letters
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1748-9326
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/4/4/044010