Annotated Bibliography 11/9/09

Most of my sources had only their abstracts to display. In order to access more amounts of information, I am considering creating accounts on these different sites.

Fearnside, Philip, M. "Deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia: The Effect of Population and Land Tenure." JSTOR Dec. 1993: 9. JSTOR. Web. 9 Nov. 2009.

This is an article about the forestland lost in Brazil. Lots of Brazil is made up of the Amazon rainforest. The actual site wasn’t able to give enough useful information, but I took down its information in order to later access it through other means. Its abstract mentioned interesting statistics that got way deeper into how Amazonion land is deforested. I learned that about 70% of deforested land is attributed to medium sized and large ranches.

Joanne, Burgess. "Timber Production, Timber Trade and Tropical Deforestation." JSTOR May 1993: 8. JSTOR. Web. 9 Nov. 2009.

I found this article at the same website as the previous citation. I think it would be an investment to create an account with JSTOR, so that I would have easier access to these articles. This piece specially talked about the cause of deforestation, like the timber industry, and what the deforested land is used for.

Houghton, R.A.."Tropical Deforestation as a source for greenhouse gas emissions." Tropical Deforestation and Climate Change 11 Nov. 2009: 13. Tropical Deforestation as a souce for greenhouse gas emissions. Web. 9 Nov. 2009.

This site actually took me to a 137 page pdf of different articles. Each article focused on a negative impact of deforestation. Just scanning through the article, I could see lots of statistics, which will provide some nice concrete resources.

Nelson, Gerald. "Deforestation, Land Use, and Property Rights: Empirical Evidence from Darién, Panama." Land Economics 1 Jan. 2001: 2. Land Economics. Web. 10 Nov. 2009.

This article suggested an interesting point, in the rights of indigenous population of deforested land. How can land in the Amazon and other areas of South America be purchased, when there have been people living on that land for years?

Moran, Emilio. "Deforestation and land use in the Brazilian Amazon." SpringerLink 21.1 (2009): 21. Springerlink. Web. 9 Nov. 2009.

It is nice to collect data of a similar subject on a geographical variance. Earlier, I researched deforestation in the Panama, and here I found some great information on the Brazilian Amazon.