Reducing Negative Impacts of Road Paving in the Amazon

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/3050
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Type:	Journal Article
Author:	Mendoza, Elsa; Perz, Stephen; Schmink, Marianne; Nepstad, Daniel
Journal:	Current Conservation
Volume:	2
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Date:	2008
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/3050
Sector:	General & Multiple Resources Urban Commons
Region:	South America
Subject(s):	infrastructure roads deforestation Amazon River region land tenure and use biodiversity
Abstract:	"Infrastructure projects are crucial for regional development, but they also bring negative social impacts such as land conflicts, as well as ecological impacts such as deforestation along with carbon emissions and loss of biodiversity. A reason for these negative impacts is that large-scale infrastructure projects lack a process to incorporate public participation. The result is marginalized communities, and consequent degradation of the ecosystems on which these communities depend."

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