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LAND POLLUTION
by: rika, 2 pagesLand pollution is the degradation of the earth’s land through human misuse of the soil. Human influences such as poor agricultural practices, the digging up of important resources, industrial ...
Combined Effects of Deforestation and Doubled Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations on the Climate of Amazonia
by: shinta, 17 pagesIt is generally expected that the Amazon basin will experience at least two major environmental changes during the next few decades and centuries: 1) increasing areas of forest will be ...
The Effects of Economic Development on Neotropical Deforestation : Household and Village Evidence from Amerindians in Bolivia
by: shinta, 44 pagesA survey of 200 lowland Amerindian households (Mojeño=88; Yuracaré=50; Chimane=62) in the department of Beni, Bolivia, was done to test the effects of income on the clearance of ...
Rural Women Perception of Effects of Deforestation on Their Economic Activities in Ogbomoso Area of Oyo State, Nigeria
by: shinta, 6 pagesDeforestation has been noted to be a problem in the rural areas. This study therefore investigated the rural women perception of effects of deforestation on their economic activities in ...
Deforestation, Growth and Agglomeration Effects : Evidence from Agriculture in the Brazilian Amazo
by: shinta, 21 pagesPopulation growth and migration have been emphasized as key variables explaining deforestation and land conversion in developing countries. The spatial distribution of human population and ...
Effect of Deforestation, Grazing exclusion and Rangeland Degradation on Soil Quality Indices in Loess-Derived Landforms of Golestan Province
by: shinta, -1 pagesTo investigate the degree of forest degradation and the effect of land use change on selected soil quality attributes in loess-derived landforms, samples were taken from different land uses ...
Technical efficiency, farm size and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazonian Forest
by: shinta, 23 pagesThe aim of this paper is to estimate the impact of farm productivity on defo- restation and to analyse whether this effect depends on farm size. Census-tract-level data from the Censo ...
The influence of soil use on the local and regional climate - deforestation as climatic factor
by: shinta, 10 pagesThe influence of land use changes on the climate is the object of lots of publications of the last years. The primary goal of this paper is to summarize the results of investigations ...
Accelerating Deforestation in the Congo Basin Can Pose Climate Risks
by: shinta, 3 pagesIn Baidya Roy et al. (2005), we found that extensive logging in the recently opened timber concessions of Gabon and the Republic of Congo may affect the meteorology of adjacent ...
Impact of Deforestation on Regional Precipitation over the Indochina Peninsula
by: shinta, 20 pagesIt is now widely recognized that tropical deforestation can change the regional climate significantly. The increasing population and the spreading deforestation in the Indochina Peninsula, ...
