POL469H1 Lecture Notes - Secondary Succession, Cassava, Deforestation
Document Summary
Idsb02 reading- physical and human dimensions of deforestation in amazonia. Tropical deforestation is important to global climate change, hydrology change and biogeochemical cycles. Brazil has the highest deforestation rates according to some. The understand of tropical deforestation is inadequate b/c: lack of accurate measure of its rate, geographic extent and spatial pattern, lack of insight to its causes. Obvious that tropical deforestation is b/c of lots of social, economic & environmental factors but how they interrelate to effect deforestation vary widely -> some say chiefly pop growth others say institutions. An interdisciplinary approach to analyzing deforestation on brazilian amazon needed. Landsat and spot satellite remotes sensors could be used to measure the levels of deforestation would provide the best info. They could be used to develop detailed maps of rate and extent of deforestation to then document location and expansion over time. Noaa sensors could be used to locate areas of intense deforestation.
