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- Title
O Desmatamento na Amazônia Legal Brasileira: Case Região do Cone-Sul de Rondônia.
- Authors
dos Anjos de Souza, Ranieli; Moura, Valdir; Silva, Geslaine; Berticelli Ló, Thiago; Assis de Brito, Marcelo Vinicius; Tavares, Barbara Laura; Johann, Jerry Adriani
- Abstract
Brazil has the largest tropical forest on the planet, and due to intense deforestation, the amount of forests has decreased significantly over the years, giving rise to various forms of use, such as livestock, agriculture and urban centers, accelerating the dynamics of land cover change, especially in the Brazilian legal Amazon. Thus, this study evaluated changes in land use and land cover, as well as the advance of deforestation in the Southern Cone region, Rondônia state, with a view to discussing its possible causes and the effectiveness of environmental laws, which focus on contain deforestation. Deforestation data from the Amazon Deforestation Monitoring Program (PRODES) between 2000 and 2017, orbital images of the TM and OLI sensor, and agricultural data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) were used. The results showed that in the period evaluated, even with strict enforcement of environmental laws, deforestation increased by approximately 20%. It is noteworthy that the increase in deforestation rates has been constant over the years. However, after the creation of Decree 6,514/2008 together with the agreement on the soy moratorium and other programs, there was a reduction in annual deforestation rates, evidencing a possible effectiveness of these measures to curb the progress of deforestation.
- Publication
UD y la GEOMÁTICA, 2020, Issue 15, p50
- ISSN
2011-4990
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.14483/23448407.16025