The Economics of Deforestation in Brazil
Bob Carty reports from the Brazilian northeast on the domestic and international forces that are driving the widespread destruction of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. The region embodies many of the historical conflicts between environmental protection and economic development, which will be the focus of a major UN conference next month in Rio de Janeiro.
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