A floresta, a fome, o desmatamento e o clima

André Thiago de Souza Lanzer

Resumo
Vários aspectos das florestas tropicais, particularmente da Amazônia, são contemplados e inter-relacionados por meio da fome, que motiva o desmatamento, da agricultura, que supri alimentos, e do clima, que absorve os impactos deste processo e os redistribui na cadeia alimentar. As relações evidenciadas neste sistema mostram parte do papel do homem sobre as consequências que geradas. Há implicações na quantidade de carbono emitido em relação à floresta pré-existente.

Palavras-chave
Floresta Tropical Amazônica; Mercado de carbono; Desmatamento; Gestão ambiental

Abstract
The forest, the hunger, the deforestation, and the climate. Several features of the tropical forests, particularly Amazonian Rain Forest, are looked and interrelated through the hunger, that causes deforestation, the agriculture, that supply food, and the climate, that absorbs the impacts of this process and redistributes it in the food chain. The relationships highlighted in this system show part of the role of man in the consequences that are generated. There are implications in the amount of carbon released from the previously existing forest.

Keywords
Amazonian rain forest; Carbon market; Deforestation; Environmental management.

DOI
10.21438/rbgas(2026)133329


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