List of works - Philip Fearnside

A VULNERABILIDADE DA FLORESTA AMAZÔNICA PERANTE AS MUDANÇAS CLIMÁTICAS

scientific article published in 2009

A stochastic model for estimating human carrying capacity in Brazil's Transamazon Highway colonization area

article

Above-ground biomass and the fate of carbon after burning in the savannas of Roraima, Brazilian Amazonia

article

Accelerating deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia: towards answering open questions

article

Accounting for time in Mitigating Global Warming through land-use change and forestry

article by Philip Fearnside et al published 2000 in Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

Agricultural plans for Brazil's Grande Carajás program: Lost opportunity for sustainable local development?

article

Agriculture. Sustainable biofuels redux.

scientific article published in October 2008

Amazon Forest maintenance as a source of environmental services

scientific article

Amazon aquatic biodiversity imperiled by oil spills

article

Amazon burning.

scientific article

Amazon dams and waterways: Brazil's Tapajós Basin plans.

scientific article

Amazon soil charcoal: Pyrogenic carbon stock depends of ignition source distance and forest type in Roraima, Brazil

article

Amazonia: Water Resources and Sustainability

Amazonian Dark Earths as Carbon Stores and Sinks

Amazonian deforestation and global warming: carbon stocks in vegetation replacing Brazil's Amazon forest

article

Amazonian forest loss and the long reach of China’s influence

article

An Amazonian rainforest and its fragments as a laboratory of global change.

scientific article

Apparent environmental synergism drives the dynamics of Amazonian forest fragments

scientific article published in 2014

Are climate change impacts already affecting tropical forest biomass?

scholarly article by Philip Fearnside published December 2004 in Global Environmental Change

Avança Brasil: environmental and social consequences of Brazil's planned infrastructure in Amazonia

scientific article

Avoided deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia: Simulating the effect of the Juma Sustainable Development Reserve

article

BR-319: Brazil's Manaus-Porto Velho highway and the potential impact of linking the arc of deforestation to central amazonia

scientific article

Beyond diversity loss and climate change: Impacts of Amazon deforestation on infectious diseases and public health

scientific article published on 17 April 2020

Biodiversity as an environmental service in Brazil's Amazonian forests: risks, value and conservation

article

Biomass and greenhouse-gas emissions from land-use change in Brazil's Amazonian “arc of deforestation”: The states of Mato Grosso and Rondônia

article

Biomass burning in Brazil's Amazonian “arc of deforestation”: Burning efficiency and charcoal formation in a fire after mechanized clearing at Feliz Natal, Mato Grosso

article

Book Review

Brazil threatens Indigenous lands

scientific article published on 01 May 2020

Brazil's Amazon forest in mitigating global warming: unresolved controversies

article

Brazil's Amazon settlement schemes

article

Brazil's Balbina Dam: Environment versus the legacy of the Pharaohs in Amazonia

article

Brazil's Cuiabá- Santarém (BR-163) Highway: the environmental cost of paving a soybean corridor through the Amazon

scientific article published on 20 March 2007

Brazil's Samuel Dam: lessons for hydroelectric development policy and the environment in Amazonia

scientific article published on January 2005

Brazil's evolving proposal to control deforestation: Amazon still at risk

article

Brazilian Amazonian caboclo agriculture: effect of fallow period on maize yield

article

Brazilian wetlands on the brink

article

Burning in southwestern Brazilian Amazonia, 2016–2019

scientific article published on 05 March 2021

Burning of Amazonian forest in Ariquemes, Rondônia, Brazil: biomass, charcoal formation and burning efficiency

article

Burning of Amazonian rainforests: burning efficiency and charcoal formation in forest cleared for cattle pasture near Manaus, Brazil

article

Burning of secondary forest in Amazonia: Biomass, burning efficiency and charcoal formation during land preparation for agriculture in Apiaú, Roraima, Brazil

article

CONSERVATION. Brazilian politics threaten environmental policies

scientific article

Carbon benefits from Amazonian forest reserves: leakage accounting and the value of time

Carbon credit for hydroelectric dams as a source of greenhouse-gas emissions: the example of Brazil’s Teles Pires Dam

article

Carbon uptake by secondary forests in Brazilian Amazonia

article

China's Three Gorges Dam: “Fatal” project or step toward modernization?

article

Climate Change as a Threat to Brazil’s Amazon Forest

scholarly article published July 2013

Climate change. Preparing for resettlement associated with climate change.

scientific article

Climatic change as an integrating force in the pursuit of science

Comment on "Determination of deforestation rates of the world's humid tropical forests".

scientific article published in February 2003

Conservation Policy in Brazilian Amazonia: Understanding the Dilemmas

article

Containing destruction from Brazil's Amazon highways: now is the time to give weight to the environment in decision-making

article

Credit for climate mitigation by Amazonian dams: loopholes and impacts illustrated by Brazil’s Jirau Hydroelectric Project

article

Dams in the Amazon: Belo Monte and Brazil's hydroelectric development of the Xingu River Basin.

scientific article published on July 2006

Dams, Chinese investments, and EIAs: A race to the bottom in South America?

scientific article published on 15 February 2019

Deforestation Control in Mato Grosso: A New Model for Slowing the Loss of Brazil's Amazon Forest

article

Deforestation Dynamics on an Amazonian Peri-Urban Frontier: Simulating the Influence of the Rio Negro Bridge in Manaus, Brazil

article

Deforestation Trajectories on a Development Frontier in the Brazilian Amazon: 35 Years of Settlement Colonization, Policy and Economic Shifts, and Land Accumulation

scientific article published on 16 September 2020

Deforestation and Carbon Loss in Southwest Amazonia: Impact of Brazil's Revised Forest Code

scientific article

Deforestation and methane release from termites in Amazonia

Deforestation control in Mato Grosso: a new model for slowing the loss of Brazil's Amazon forest

scientific article published in August 2003

Densidade da madeira de árvores em savanas do norte da Amazônia brasileira

Desmatamento na Amazônia: dinâmica, impactos e controle

Desmatamento no sul do estado de Roraima: padrões de distribuição em função de projetos de assentamento do INCRA e da distância das principais rodovias (BR-174 e BR-210)

Do Hydroelectric Dams Mitigate Global Warming? The Case of Brazil's CuruÁ-una Dam

article

EMISSÕES DE GASES DE EFEITO ESTUFA DOS RESERVATÓRIOS DE HIDRELÉTRICAS: IMPLICAÇÕES DE UMA LEI DE POTÊNCIA

scientific article published in 2011

Environment: Deforestation soars in the Amazon

scientific article published in May 2015

Environmental impact assessment in Brazilian Amazonia: Challenges and prospects to assess biodiversity

article

Environmental impacts of Brazil's Tucuruí Dam: unlearned lessons for hydroelectric development in Amazonia.

scientific article

Environmental services as a strategy for sustainable development in rural Amazonia

article

Environmentalists split over Kyoto and Amazonian deforestation

Estimates of forest biomass in the Brazilian Amazon: New allometric equations and adjustments to biomass from wood-volume inventories

article

Estimation of human carrying capacity in rainforest areas.

scientific article published on June 1990

Extractive Reserves in Brazilian Amazonia

article

Fire frequency and area burned in the Roraima savannas of Brazilian Amazonia

article

Forest fires and deforestation in the central Amazon: Effects of landscape and climate on spatial and temporal dynamics

scientific article published on 21 March 2021

Forest fires in southwestern Brazilian Amazonia: Estimates of area and potential carbon emissions

article

Forest management in Amazonia: the need for new criteria in evaluating development options

article

Forests and global warming mitigation in Brazil: opportunities in the Brazilian forest sector for responses to global warming under the “clean development mechanism”

article

Forests or fields?

GREENHOUSE GASES FROM DEFORESTATION IN BRAZILIAN AMAZONIA: NET COMMITTED EMISSIONS

Global Warming and Tropical Land-Use Change: Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Biomass Burning, Decomposition and Soils in Forest Conversion, Shifting Cultivation and Secondary Vegetation

article by Philip Fearnside published 2000 in Climatic Change

Global warming in Amazonia: impacts and Mitigation

article

Global warming response options in Brazil's forest sector: Comparison of project-level costs and benefits

article

Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Hydroelectric Dams: Controversies Provide a Springboard for Rethinking a Supposedly ‘Clean’ Energy Source. An Editorial Comment

Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Hydroelectric Dams: Reply tO Rosa Et al

Greenhouse Gas Emissions from a Hydroelectric Reservoir (Brazil’s Tucuruí Dam) and the Energy Policy Implications

Greenhouse-gas emissions from Amazonian hydroelectric reservoirs: the example of Brazil's Tucuruí Dam as compared to fossil fuel alternatives

article

Greenhouse-gas emissions from tropical dams

Human carrying capacity estimation in Brazilian Amazonia as a basis for sustainable development

article

Hydroelectric Dams in the Brazilian Amazon as Sources of ‘Greenhouse’ Gases

article

Hydropower and the future of Amazonian biodiversity

article

Hydropower: don't waste climate money on more dams

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Impact of Community Forest Management on Biomass Carbon Stocks in the Uatumã Sustainable Development Reserve, Amazonas, Brazil

scholarly article by André Luiz Menezes Vianna & Philip Fearnside published 31 January 2014 in Journal of Sustainable Forestry

Impacts of Brazil's Madeira River Dams: Unlearned lessons for hydroelectric development in Amazonia

article

Importance of soils, topography and geographic distance in structuring central Amazonian tree communities

article

Improved allometric models to estimate the aboveground biomass of tropical trees.

scientific article

Influence of soils and topography on Amazonian tree diversity: a landscape-scale study

article

Interdisciplinary research as a strategy for environmental science and management in Brazilian Amazonia: potential and limitations

article

Issues in Amazonian development

scientific article published on 01 March 2002

LIDAR-based estimation of bole biomass for precision management of an Amazonian forest: Comparisons of ground-based and remotely sensed estimates

article

Land-Tenure Issues as Factors in Environmental Destruction in Brazilian Amazonia: The Case of Southern Pará

article

Land-use Change Modeling in a Brazilian Indigenous Reserve: Construction of a Reference Scenario for the Suruí REDD Project

article

Long-term changes in liana abundance and forest dynamics in undisturbed Amazonian forests

scientific article published on June 2014

Maintaining carbon stocks in extractive reserves in Brazilian Amazonia

article

Measuring the impact of flooding on Amazonian trees: photosynthetic response models for ten species flooded by hydroelectric dams

scholarly article by U. M. dos Santos Junior et al published 13 October 2012 in Trees

Normalization of wood density in biomass estimates of Amazon forests

article

O “estímulo” de garimpagem pelo decreto de Bolsonaro ⬇️

On the value of temporary carbon: a comment on Kirschbaum

Pasture burning in Amazonia: Dynamics of residual biomass and the storage and release of aboveground carbon

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Plantation forestry in Brazil: the potential impacts of climatic change

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Plantation forestry in Brazil:projections to 2050

article

Political Benefits as Barriers to Assessment of Environmental Costs in Brazil's Amazonian Development Planning: The Example of the Jatapu Dam in Roraima

scientific article published on September 1996

Postcript from Philip M. Fearnside

Potential impacts of climatic change on natural forests and forestry in Brazilian Amazonia

article

Predictors of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

article

Processos predatórios na floresta tropical úmida da Amazônia Brasileira

Production and stock of coarse woody debris across a hydro-edaphic gradient of oligotrophic forests in the northern Brazilian Amazon

article

Protect Indigenous peoples from COVID-19

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Protected areas: A focus on Brazilian freshwater biodiversity

article

Protection of mahogany: a catalytic species in the destruction of rain forests in the American tropics

scholarly article by PHILIP M. FEARNSIDE published December 1997 in Environmental Conservation

RAIN FOREST FRAGMENTATION AND THE STRUCTURE OF AMAZONIAN LIANA COMMUNITIES

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Rain forest fragmentation and the proliferation of successional trees

scientific article published on February 2006

Rainforest Corridors: The Transamazon Colonization Scheme

scholarly article by Philip Fearnside & Nigel J. H. Smith published August 1983 in Hispanic American Historical Review

Rainforest burning and the global carbon budget: Biomass, combustion efficiency, and charcoal formation in the Brazilian Amazon

article

Relationship between soils and Amazon forest biomass: a landscape-scale study

article

Removing the abyss between conservation science and policy decisions in Brazil

scientific article published on 16 February 2017

Rethinking Continuous Cultivation in Amazonia

Root biomass, root:shoot ratio and belowground carbon stocks in the open savannahs of Roraima, Brazilian Amazonia

article

Saving tropical forests as a global warming countermeasure: an issue that divides the environmental movement

article

Science and carbon sinks in Brazil

article

Social Impacts of Brazil's Tucuruí Dam

article

Soil carbon changes from conversion of forest to pasture in Brazilian Amazonia

article

Soil charcoal as long-term pyrogenic carbon storage in Amazonian seasonal forests

scientific article

Soybean cultivation as a threat to the environment in Brazil

article

TROPICAL DEFORESTATION AND GREENHOUSE-GAS EMISSIONS

article

Testing for criticality in ecosystem dynamics: the case of Amazonian rainforest and savanna fire

scientific article

The Amazon: biofuels plan will drive deforestation

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

The Cotingo Dam as a Test of Brazil's System for Evaluating Proposed Developments in Amazonia

scientific article published in September 1996

The Potential of Brazil's Forest Sector for Mitigating Global Warming under the Kyoto Protocol

The Value of Human Life in Global Warming Impacts

The causes of tropical deforestation

The drivers and impacts of Amazon forest degradation

The future of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

article

The maintenance of soil fertility in Amazonian managed systems

article by Flávio J. Luizão et al published 2009 in Geophysical Monograph

The theoretical battlefield: accounting for the carbon benefits of maintaining Brazil’s Amazon forest

article

Time preference in global warming calculations: a proposal for a unified index

article

Time preference: reply to Tol

scientific article published in 2002

Transmigration in Indonesia: Lessons from Its Environmental and Social Impacts

scholarly article by Philip Fearnside published 1 July 1997 in Environmental Management

Tree height in Brazil's ‘arc of deforestation’: Shorter trees in south and southwest Amazonia imply lower biomass

article

Tropical dams: To build or not to build?

scientific article

Tropical deforestation and global warming

scientific article

Tropical forest burning in Brazilian Amazonia: measurement of biomass loading, burning efficiency and charcoal formation at Altamira, Pará

article

Uncertainty in land-use change and forestry sector mitigation options for global warming: Plantation silviculture versus avoided deforestation

article

Variability of vegetation fires with rain and deforestation in Brazil's state of Amazonas

article

Volume and biomass of trees in central Amazonia: influence of irregularly shaped and hollow trunks

article published in 2006

Water diversion in Brazil threatens biodiversity

scientific article published on 27 April 2019

What is at stake for Brazilian Amazonia in the climate negotiations

article

Why a 100-Year Time Horizon should be used for Global Warming Mitigation Calculations

Will urbanization cause deforested areas to be abandoned in Brazilian Amazonia?

article

Wood density for estimating forest biomass in Brazilian Amazonia

article

Wood density in dense forest in central Amazonia, Brazil

article

Wood density in forests of Brazil's ‘arc of deforestation’: Implications for biomass and flux of carbon from land-use change in Amazonia

article

Wood density of trees in open savannas of the Brazilian Amazon

article

Yanomami Mobility and Its Effects on the Forest Landscape

article

List of works by Philip Fearnside

A VULNERABILIDADE DA FLORESTA AMAZÔNICA PERANTE AS MUDANÇAS CLIMÁTICAS

A stochastic model for estimating human carrying capacity in Brazil's Transamazon Highway colonization area

Above-ground biomass and the fate of carbon after burning in the savannas of Roraima, Brazilian Amazonia

Accelerating deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia: towards answering open questions

Accounting for time in Mitigating Global Warming through land-use change and forestry

Agricultural plans for Brazil's Grande Carajás program: Lost opportunity for sustainable local development?

Agriculture. Sustainable biofuels redux.

Amazon Forest maintenance as a source of environmental services

Amazon aquatic biodiversity imperiled by oil spills

Amazon burning.

Amazon dams and waterways: Brazil's Tapajós Basin plans.

Amazon soil charcoal: Pyrogenic carbon stock depends of ignition source distance and forest type in Roraima, Brazil

Amazonia: Water Resources and Sustainability

Amazonian Dark Earths as Carbon Stores and Sinks

Amazonian deforestation and global warming: carbon stocks in vegetation replacing Brazil's Amazon forest

Amazonian forest loss and the long reach of China’s influence

An Amazonian rainforest and its fragments as a laboratory of global change.

Apparent environmental synergism drives the dynamics of Amazonian forest fragments

Are climate change impacts already affecting tropical forest biomass?

Avança Brasil: environmental and social consequences of Brazil's planned infrastructure in Amazonia

Avoided deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia: Simulating the effect of the Juma Sustainable Development Reserve

BR-319: Brazil's Manaus-Porto Velho highway and the potential impact of linking the arc of deforestation to central amazonia

Beyond diversity loss and climate change: Impacts of Amazon deforestation on infectious diseases and public health

Biodiversity as an environmental service in Brazil's Amazonian forests: risks, value and conservation

Biomass and greenhouse-gas emissions from land-use change in Brazil's Amazonian “arc of deforestation”: The states of Mato Grosso and Rondônia

Biomass burning in Brazil's Amazonian “arc of deforestation”: Burning efficiency and charcoal formation in a fire after mechanized clearing at Feliz Natal, Mato Grosso

Book Review

Brazil threatens Indigenous lands

Brazil's Amazon forest in mitigating global warming: unresolved controversies

Brazil's Amazon settlement schemes

Brazil's Balbina Dam: Environment versus the legacy of the Pharaohs in Amazonia

Brazil's Cuiabá- Santarém (BR-163) Highway: the environmental cost of paving a soybean corridor through the Amazon

Brazil's Samuel Dam: lessons for hydroelectric development policy and the environment in Amazonia

Brazil's evolving proposal to control deforestation: Amazon still at risk

Brazilian Amazonian caboclo agriculture: effect of fallow period on maize yield

Brazilian wetlands on the brink

Burning in southwestern Brazilian Amazonia, 2016–2019

Burning of Amazonian forest in Ariquemes, Rondônia, Brazil: biomass, charcoal formation and burning efficiency

Burning of Amazonian rainforests: burning efficiency and charcoal formation in forest cleared for cattle pasture near Manaus, Brazil

Burning of secondary forest in Amazonia: Biomass, burning efficiency and charcoal formation during land preparation for agriculture in Apiaú, Roraima, Brazil

CONSERVATION. Brazilian politics threaten environmental policies

Carbon benefits from Amazonian forest reserves: leakage accounting and the value of time

Carbon credit for hydroelectric dams as a source of greenhouse-gas emissions: the example of Brazil’s Teles Pires Dam

Carbon uptake by secondary forests in Brazilian Amazonia

China's Three Gorges Dam: “Fatal” project or step toward modernization?

Climate Change as a Threat to Brazil’s Amazon Forest

Climate change. Preparing for resettlement associated with climate change.

Climatic change as an integrating force in the pursuit of science

Comment on "Determination of deforestation rates of the world's humid tropical forests".

Conservation Policy in Brazilian Amazonia: Understanding the Dilemmas

Containing destruction from Brazil's Amazon highways: now is the time to give weight to the environment in decision-making

Credit for climate mitigation by Amazonian dams: loopholes and impacts illustrated by Brazil’s Jirau Hydroelectric Project

Dams in the Amazon: Belo Monte and Brazil's hydroelectric development of the Xingu River Basin.

Dams, Chinese investments, and EIAs: A race to the bottom in South America?

Deforestation Control in Mato Grosso: A New Model for Slowing the Loss of Brazil's Amazon Forest

Deforestation Dynamics on an Amazonian Peri-Urban Frontier: Simulating the Influence of the Rio Negro Bridge in Manaus, Brazil

Deforestation Trajectories on a Development Frontier in the Brazilian Amazon: 35 Years of Settlement Colonization, Policy and Economic Shifts, and Land Accumulation

Deforestation and Carbon Loss in Southwest Amazonia: Impact of Brazil's Revised Forest Code

Deforestation and methane release from termites in Amazonia

Deforestation control in Mato Grosso: a new model for slowing the loss of Brazil's Amazon forest

Densidade da madeira de árvores em savanas do norte da Amazônia brasileira

Desmatamento na Amazônia: dinâmica, impactos e controle

Desmatamento no sul do estado de Roraima: padrões de distribuição em função de projetos de assentamento do INCRA e da distância das principais rodovias (BR-174 e BR-210)

Do Hydroelectric Dams Mitigate Global Warming? The Case of Brazil's CuruÁ-una Dam

EMISSÕES DE GASES DE EFEITO ESTUFA DOS RESERVATÓRIOS DE HIDRELÉTRICAS: IMPLICAÇÕES DE UMA LEI DE POTÊNCIA

Environment: Deforestation soars in the Amazon

Environmental impact assessment in Brazilian Amazonia: Challenges and prospects to assess biodiversity

Environmental impacts of Brazil's Tucuruí Dam: unlearned lessons for hydroelectric development in Amazonia.

Environmental services as a strategy for sustainable development in rural Amazonia

Environmentalists split over Kyoto and Amazonian deforestation

Estimates of forest biomass in the Brazilian Amazon: New allometric equations and adjustments to biomass from wood-volume inventories

Estimation of human carrying capacity in rainforest areas.

Extractive Reserves in Brazilian Amazonia

Fire frequency and area burned in the Roraima savannas of Brazilian Amazonia

Forest fires and deforestation in the central Amazon: Effects of landscape and climate on spatial and temporal dynamics

Forest fires in southwestern Brazilian Amazonia: Estimates of area and potential carbon emissions

Forest management in Amazonia: the need for new criteria in evaluating development options

Forests and global warming mitigation in Brazil: opportunities in the Brazilian forest sector for responses to global warming under the “clean development mechanism”

Forests or fields?