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Large-scale Degradation of the Tocantins-Araguaia River Basin
Pelicice, Fernando Mayer; Agostinho, Angelo Antonio; Akama, Alberto; Andrade Filho, José Dilermando; Azevedo-Santos, Valter M. [UNESP]Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T19:42:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-10-01; The Tocantins-Araguaia Basin is one of the largest river systems in South America, located entirely within Brazilian territory. In the last decades, capital-concentrating activities such as agribusiness, mining, and hydropower promoted extensive changes in land cover, hydrology, and environmental condit...
Agribusiness and environment in the savannah of Tocantins state, Brazil: an ove...
Souza, Lucas Barbosa e; Barros, Juliana RamalhoThe recent expansion of agribusiness in Tocantins state’s savannah has brought several kinds of changes to this biome territory, among them environmental ones. Its consequences may affect the climate, water resources, socio-biodiversity, and people’s ways of life, particularly those who live in the countryside and rely directly on nature to support themselves. Grounded on such a context, this paper offers an ov...