Project 3 _ Jacob Roller

Dominguez, D, et al. (2022). Forecasting amazon rain-forest deforestation using a hybrid machine learning model. Sustainability, 14 (2), 2. 

The Amazon is recognized as the largest tropical rainforest in the earth, hosting 25% of the planet’s biodiversity. Due to the sustained deforestation in the last decades in the Amazon region, and considering the importance of Amazon vegetation and its impact on the global climate and weather, the deforestation is recognized as an issue to be solved in order to reduce their negative effects in this ecosystem and for sustainable development. Since 2012, there has been an increase in deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon, regardless of the attempts to mitigate it. One of the principal reasons is the deficiency in deforestation control. Despite all the efforts implemented by Brazil, which is an example for its policies in order to minimize CO2 emission, the deforestation and the elimination of autochthon vegetation is on the rise. Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon is partly increased due to the lack of environmental policies to control practices related to illegal logging, farming, and mining. Infrastructure, commerce, debt, human capital investment, and resource-based economic expansion all exacerbate deforestation. Major reforms in land-policy use are required, securing the foundations for the forest base’s long-term viability will require a two-pronged approach by development planners and policymakers, one that addresses not only the land-use practices that lead to the loss of tropical forests, but also the underlying social processes that cause this destruction.  

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