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Even if Bolsonaro leaves power, deforestation in Brazil will be hard to stop

Some Amazon deforestation is caused by recent policy, but there are also long-term issues, discusses researchers in a new article in The Conversation.

Deforestation in Brazil.
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The article is published on July 8 and written by Larissa Basso, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Politics, Stockholm University, and Cristina Yumie Aoki Inoue, Professor, Institute of International Relations, University of Brasilia.

They write:
“Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon made global headlines in 2019, thanks to massive wildfires and the election of anti-environmentalist president Jair Bolsonaro. Brazilians took to the streets against it, and retailers and consumers threatened to boycott Brazilian products. But while the pandemic has dominated the headlines in 2020 and 2021, deforestation continues to rise.

With polls showing Bolsonaro could lose the 2022 election, would a change in government help? To understand why deforestation is increasing in Brazil we must look at changes in environmental protection since Bolsonaro came to office, but we must also delve into some structural issues that won’t be resolved easily – even by a different president.”

Read the article published in The Conversation:
https://theconversation.com/even-if-bolsonaro-leaves-power-deforestation-in-brazil-will-be-hard-to-stop-163964
Read more about the collaboration between Stockholm University and The Conversation and how to pitch an article idea:
https://www.su.se/staff/services/information-communication/pitch-an-article-idea-for-the-conversation-1.462268
More articles in The Conversation by researchers at Stockholm University: https://theconversation.com/institutions/stockholm-university-1019

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