Global demand for steel drives extensive land-use change in Brazil's Iron Quadrangle

Global demand for minerals is often considered an insignificant driver of land-use change because mines are small. We (1) investigated evidence supporting a link between global demand for steel and land-use change in Brazil's Iron Quadrangle, and (2) quantified the extent of land-use change and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sonter, L., Barrett, D., Soares-Filho, B., Moran, Chris
Format: Journal Article
Published: Pergamon 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/31839