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Outstanding Honors Theses

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2011

Rain forest

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A Critical Study Of The Literature About Deforestation In The Brazilian Amazon, Samuel Morrill Jul 2011

A Critical Study Of The Literature About Deforestation In The Brazilian Amazon, Samuel Morrill

Outstanding Honors Theses

The purpose of this honors thesis was to summarize and analyze the competing positions about the causes and consequences of the continuing deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon based on the positions recently presented ( i.e, from 2000 to 2010) in published sources on the subject. This analysis of the competing positions on the causes and consequences of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has focused on and has been guided by a search for answers to two critical questions:

Which groups of people in the world benefit from the way in which the causes and consequences of deforestation in …