Limits of Brazil’s Forest Code as a means to end illegal deforestation

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

• Publication date

  2017-07-03

• Fields of study

  Geography, Law, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1073/pnas.1604768114PMID 28674015PMCID PMC5530639
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