{"id":2095,"date":"2016-01-02T20:28:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T01:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexpfaff.com\/?post_type=research-paper&#038;p=2095"},"modified":"2020-07-07T23:24:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T23:24:48","slug":"deforestation-dynamics-in-response-to-the-evolution-of-the-western-amazonian-inter-oceanic-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.sanford.duke.edu\/alexpfaff\/2016\/01\/02\/deforestation-dynamics-in-response-to-the-evolution-of-the-western-amazonian-inter-oceanic-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Deforestation dynamics in response to the evolution  of the Western Amazonian Inter-Oceanic Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"authors\">Cesar Delgado, Dalia Amor Conde, Joseph O. Sexton, Fernando Colchero, Jennifer J. Swenson, Alexander Pfaff<\/div>\n<div class=\"published\">Draft working paper, Duke University.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Over the last three decades, the first continuous road has been paved to connect northern\u00a0 South America\u2019s Atlantic and Pacific coasts. The final sections of this Inter-Oceanic Highway are now being completed through the western Amazon Basin, a global\u00a0biodiversity hotspot, at the triple-border of Brazil, Bolivia and Peru. Satellite images from\u00a01989, 2000, and 2007 reveal accelerating clearing across the region, but the countries\u2019 prior\u00a0infrastructures governed their individual responses to the road. Brazilian deforestation\u00a0slowed as the frontier expanded away from the highway with a network of capillary roads,\u00a0but Bolivian clearing accelerated as its urban centers sprawled toward the road. Peru\u2019s\u00a0forests remain relatively intact, but similar trends isolated from Brazil suggest imminent\u00a0acceleration as Peruvian infrastructural capacity increases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cesar Delgado, Dalia Amor Conde, Joseph O. Sexton, Fernando Colchero, Jennifer J. Swenson, Alexander Pfaff Draft working paper, Duke University. &nbsp; Over the last three decades, the first continuous road has been paved to connect northern\u00a0 South America\u2019s Atlantic and Pacific coasts. The final sections of this Inter-Oceanic Highway are now being completed through the western Amazon Basin, a global\u00a0biodiversity hotspot, at the triple-border of Brazil, Bolivia and Peru. Satellite images from\u00a01989, 2000, and 2007 reveal accelerating clearing across the region, but the countries\u2019 prior\u00a0infrastructures governed their individual responses to the road. Brazilian deforestation\u00a0slowed as the frontier expanded away from the highway with a network of capillary roads,\u00a0but Bolivian clearing accelerated as its urban centers sprawled toward the road. Peru\u2019s\u00a0forests remain relatively intact, but similar trends isolated from Brazil suggest imminent\u00a0acceleration as Peruvian infrastructural capacity increases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,28,39,44,45],"tags":[79,146],"class_list":["post-2095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19","category-bolivia","category-land-use-climate-mitigation","category-peru","category-secondary-data","tag-deforestation","tag-roads","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Deforestation dynamics in response to the evolution of the Western Amazonian Inter-Oceanic Highway - 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