Logging impacts and prospects for sustainable forest management in an old Amazonian frontier: The case of Paragominas

Agriculture & Biology

• sustainable forestry 100%
• logging 75%
• profits and margins 57%
• ranchers 43%
• Amazonia 32%
• sawmills 26%
• wood industry 26%
• forest management 22%
• hardwood 20%
• vines 19%
• bandsaws 16%
• forest roads 15%
• roundwood 14%
• forest fires 13%
• forest resources 13%
• economics 13%
• forest land 13%
• finance 13%
• Brazil 12%
• natural regeneration 12%
• communications technology 12%
• lumber 12%
• saplings 10%
• thinning (plants) 10%
• production costs 9%
• income 8%
• canopy 7%
• seedlings 6%
• energy 5%
• extracts 5%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• sustainable forest management 85%
• profit 69%
• mill 39%
• timber 33%
• harvest 30%
• damage 22%
• forest management 22%
• price 18%
• road 16%
• natural regeneration 14%
• backwater 14%
• sapling 14%
• industry 13%
• communication system 13%
• production cost 13%
• economics 13%
• stocking 13%
• forest resource 12%
• land 12%
• rights 12%
• forest fire 11%
• seedling 11%
• firm 11%
• thinning 10%
• canopy 9%
• economy 8%
• resource 6%
• cost 5%
• energy 5%