Abstract

GARCIA APAZA, Emilio. Emissions of greenhouse gas in a period of land enabling. RIIARn [online]. 2014, vol.1, n.1, pp.99-113. ISSN 2409-1618.

Part of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) emissions are due to burning of slash or burning of a portion of forest biomass for agricultural and livestock purposes. Biomass burning usually occurs in times of preparation of land to start farming. Following a methodology based on the counting of fires points (fires lit), and the relative area that could produce because its potentiality to produce fire. For this purposes we applied the methodology of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change forthe estimation of CO2 emissions in Bolivia for 2007. These results have shown that the emissions due to deforestation was 1665.79 Gg of CO2, particularly in the eastern regions of Bolivia, and that at least 24% of the hot spots located by NOAA satellites and MMODIS correspond to prescribed burning of savannas.

Keywords : Slash; heat sources; fires points; agricultural frontier; CO2; assessment of burns.

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