1. NATIONAL PARKS OF BRAZIL: A STUDY IN RECREATIONAL GEOGRAPHY.
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Daniel Stillwell, H.
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NATIONAL parks & reserves , *RECREATION areas , *NATURAL resources , *LAND use , *ANIMAL diversity conservation - Abstract
This article focuses on national parks of Brazil. The national parks of Brazil offer the geographer two main avenues of investigation: a study of outstanding natural areas and a study of park management and recreational development in the tropics. Problems connected with the management of national parks of Brazil as recreational resources relate to broad land-use patterns in regions of various stages of development. The Brazilian government is gradually recognizing that uncontrolled exploitation of forest and soil, especially in tropical areas, brings erosion, floods and extinction of fauna. Therefore national parks have been created in four areas.
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- 1963
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