Technical Report: Amazon Wildfires
Schuetze, Simon and Walz, Yvonne (2021). Technical Report: Amazon Wildfires. Interconnected Disaster Risks 2020/2021. United Nations University - Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS).
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Walz, YvonneTitle Technical Report: Amazon Wildfires Series Title Interconnected Disaster Risks 2020/2021 Publication Date 2021-09-08 Place of Publication Bonn Publisher United Nations University - Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) Pages 28 Language eng Abstract In 2020 alone, an area of the Amazon forest burnt down that was larger than Fiji. While fire is often a natural process to manage vegetation, nine out of 10 of the Amazon fires in 2020 followed the intention to convert tropical rainforest into commercially used land. The Amazon is the world’s largest, most diverse tropical rainforest and Earth’s largest carbon sink, covering an area of 5.5 million km2, and it is often referred to as the world’s green lung. This technical background report for the 2020/2021 edition of the Interconnected Disaster Risks report analyses the root causes, drivers, impacts and potential solutions for the Amazon wildfires through a forensic analysis of academic literature, media articles and expert interviews. Copyright Holder United Nations University - Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) Copyright Year 2021 Copyright type Creative commons DOI 10.53324/GPRM3888 -
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