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Hydroelectric dams in Brazilian Amazonia: response to Rosa, Schaeffer & dos Santos

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2009

Philip M. Fearnside
Philip M. Fearnside
Affiliation:
National Institute for Research in the Amazon (INPA), Caixa Postal 478, 69011–970 Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, Fax: +55 92 236 3822
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In a critique of my paper on ‘greenhouse’ gas (GHG) emissions from Amazonian reservoirs (Fearnside 1995), Rosa et al. (1996) suggest that I have reached overly pessimistic conclusions because the reservoirs on which my calculations are based are unrepresentative and because methods based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) global warming potentials (GWPs) are unfair for comparing hydroelectric and fossil fuel options. I rush to defend my analysis.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , June 1996 , pp. 105 - 108
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1996

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