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Pandemics’ historical role in creating inequality
In her News Feature “An unequal blow” (15 May, p. 700), L. Wade explores how past pandemics disproportionately affected marginalized …
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Pandemics’ historical role in creating inequality
Curb land grabbing to save the Amazon
Journal letter to the editor. Despite international conservation efforts 1, deforestation in the Amazon continues apace. While the …
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Curb land grabbing to save the Amazon
Fires in protected areas reveal unforseen costs of Colombian peace
Armed conflict, and its end, can have powerful effects on natural resources, but the influence of war and peace on highly biodiverse …
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Fires in protected areas reveal unforseen costs of Colombian peace
The Ghosts of Development Past: Deforestation and Coca in Western Amazonia
For decades coca cultivation has been proposed as a cause of deforestation and attractor of migration to the forest frontier of western …
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The Origins of Cocaine: Colonization and Failed Development in the Amazon Andes
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Spatial autocorrelation reduces model precision and predictive power in deforestation analyses
Generalized linear models are often used to identify covariates of landscape processes and to model land‐use change. Generalized linear …
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Deforestation and Coca Cultivation Rooted in Twentieth-Century Development Projects
Most of the world’s coca—the source of cocaine—is grown in the Amazonian forests of Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia. As cultivation …
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The world drug problem and sustainable development
Illicit crop cultivation often occurs in forested areas and contributes to deforestation when it results in the clearing of woodland. …
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Demand for beef is unrelated to pasture expansion in northwestern Amazonia
For decades, pastures have replaced Amazon forests, threatening biodiversity. Two dominant hypotheses explain this process. First, …
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Forests and Drugs: Coca-Driven Deforestation in Tropical Biodiversity Hotspots
Identifying drivers of deforestation in tropical biodiversity hotspots is critical to assess threats to particular ecosystems and …
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