@Article{YanaiGraZicEscFea:2022:RoLaUn,
               author = "Yanai, Aurora Miho and Gra{\c{c}}a, Paulo Maur{\'{\i}}cio Lima 
                         de Alencastro and Ziccardi, Leonardo Guimar{\~a}es and Escada, 
                         Maria Isabel Sobral and Fearnside, Philip Martin",
          affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amaz{\^o}nia (INPA)} and 
                         {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amaz{\^o}nia (INPA)} and 
                         {Michigan State University} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas 
                         Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da 
                         Amaz{\^o}nia (INPA)}",
                title = "Brazil’s Amazonian deforestation: the role of landholdings in 
                         undesignated public lands",
              journal = "Regional Environmental Change",
                 year = "2022",
               volume = "22",
                pages = "e30",
             keywords = "CAR, , Land grabbing, , Arc of deforestation, Transamazon Highway, 
                         Amazon forest, Land occupation.",
             abstract = "The impact of deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia is a global 
                         concern, and land occupation in public lands contributes to 
                         increased deforestation rates. Little is known about the spread of 
                         deforestation in landholdings in undesignated public lands located 
                         on cattle-ranching frontiers. We use a case of Matupi District, a 
                         hotspot of deforestation along the Transamazon Highway in the 
                         southern portion of Brazils state of Amazonas, where spontaneous 
                         squatters and land grabbers are the main actors occupying 
                         landholdings. We assessed the advance of deforestation and the 
                         spatial distribution of landholdings in relation to the main road 
                         and to land categories (e.g., protected areas and undesignated 
                         public land). Landholdings up to 400 ha were the majority in 
                         numbers (52%) and larger landholdings (>400 ha) were located 
                         farther into the forest, contributing to expanding the 
                         deforestation frontier. By 2018, 80% of the remaining forest was 
                         in larger landholdings (>400 ha), increasing the susceptibility of 
                         this forest to being cleared in the coming years. Thus, greater 
                         attention should be given to these larger landholdings to control 
                         the spread of deforestation. By analyzing the clearing pattern in 
                         the landholdings, deforestation monitoring can focus on specifc 
                         sizes of landholdings that contribute most to the advance of the 
                         deforestation frontier. Brazils current trend to facilitating the 
                         legalization of illegal claims in undesignated public lands, such 
                         as the large and medium landholdings we studied, implies vast 
                         areas of future deforestation and should be reversed.",
                  doi = "10.1007/s10113-022-01897-0",
                  url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10113-022-01897-0",
                 issn = "1436-3798 and 1436-378X",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "Yanai2022_Article_BrazilSAmazonianDeforestationT.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "06 jun. 2024"
}