COMO INTERPRETAR O AUMENTO DA REGENERAÇÃO NA AMAZÔNIA BRASILEIRA?

The document analyzes data from the TerraClass database showing a significant increase in secondary vegetation in the Brazilian Amazon, growing from under 10 million hectares in 2004 to over 17 million hectares in 2014. It highlights that current monitoring systems, PRODES and DETER, are designed to detect primary forest deforestation and therefore leave secondary vegetation 'invisible'. The authors argue that understanding the drivers of this regeneration is essential for optimizing land use, reducing the costs of implementing the Forest Code, and achieving Brazil's carbon emission reduction targets under the Paris Agreement.

• Secondary vegetation in the Brazilian Amazon increased by more than 70% between 2004 and 2014, rising from less than 10 million hectares to over 17 million hectares.
• By 2014, nearly 25% of the total area historically deforested in the Brazilian Amazon showed signs of regeneration.
• The PRODES and DETER monitoring systems fail to track forest regeneration because they are designed to detect only primary forest deforestation; once an area is marked as deforested in the PRODES 'deforestation mask', it is never reclassified.
• The increase in secondary vegetation may help Brazil meet its Paris Agreement commitments, which include a goal to restore or reforest 12 million hectares of forest by 2030.

APA

Assunção, J., & Gandour, C. (2017). COMO INTERPRETAR O AUMENTO DA REGENERAÇÃO NA AMAZÔNIA BRASILEIRA? Climate Policy Initiative. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/CPI_Como_interpretar_o_aumento_da_regeneração_na_Amazônia_brasileira_Final.pdf

Chicago

Assunção, Juliano, and Clarissa Gandour. COMO INTERPRETAR O AUMENTO DA REGENERAÇÃO NA AMAZÔNIA BRASILEIRA? Climate Policy Initiative, 2017. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/CPI_Como_interpretar_o_aumento_da_regeneração_na_Amazônia_brasileira_Final.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{assuno2017como, author = {Assunção, Juliano and Gandour, Clarissa}, title = {{COMO INTERPRETAR O AUMENTO DA REGENERAÇÃO NA AMAZÔNIA BRASILEIRA?}}, institution = {Climate Policy Initiative}, year = {2017}, month = jun, url = {https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/CPI_Como_interpretar_o_aumento_da_regeneração_na_Amazônia_brasileira_Final.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }