Anthony B. Anderson
( - )
ecologist who has worked for fifteen years as an ecologist in the Amazon, specializing in the ecology and management of forest resources, including as program officer at the Ford Foundation in Rio de Janeiro. Previously, he was a senior scientist of the Goeldi Museum in Belém, Brazil.
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Science Quotes by Anthony B. Anderson (1 quote)
The tragedy of deforestation in Amazonia as well as elsewhere in the tropics is that its costs, in... economic, social, cultural, and aesthetic terms, far outweigh its benefits. In many cases, destruction of the region’s rainforests is motivated by short-term gains rather than the long-term productive capacity of the land. And, as a result, deforestation usually leaves behind landscapes that are economically as well as ecologically impoverished.
— Anthony B. Anderson
From Anthony Bennett Anderson (ed.), Alternatives to Deforestation: Steps Toward Sustainable Use
of the Amazon Rain Forest (1990), xi. As cited in Lykke E. Andersen (ed.), The Dynamics of Deforestation and Economic Growth in the Brazilian Amazon (2002), 2.