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Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Deforestation of the Amazon ( Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest - Wikipedia )
 * Article Evaluation
 * This article contains some resources that are out of date as well as information that seems irrelevant to deforestation or it is misplaced in the article. The summary is too long and should be split into categories. One of the categories called Causes of deforestation has a subcategory called Other, I think this should be replaced with natural disasters.
 * Sources
 * Oikonomakis, Leonidas. “Chicha-Coronavirus: 1-0. On Trust, Natural Disasters, and Pandemics in the Ecuadorian Amazon.” Mundo Amazonico 11.2 (2020): 244–254. Web.
 * de Andrade, Milena Marília Nogueira, and Claudio Fabian Szlafsztein. “Community Participation in Flood Mapping in the Amazon through Interdisciplinary Methods.” Natural hazards (Dordrecht) 78.3 (2015): 1491–1500. Web.
 * “Study Links Hurricanes, Amazon Fires, and North Atlantic SSTs.” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 96.12 (2015): 2034–. Print.
 * de Andrade, Milena Marília Nogueira, and Claudio Fabian Szlafsztein. “Community Participation in Flood Mapping in the Amazon through Interdisciplinary Methods.” Natural hazards (Dordrecht) 78.3 (2015): 1491–1500. Web.
 * “Study Links Hurricanes, Amazon Fires, and North Atlantic SSTs.” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 96.12 (2015): 2034–. Print.

Option 2

 * Deforestation and climate change ( Deforestation and climate change - Wikipedia )
 * Article Evaluation
 * The summary contains a lot of information that seems out of order. No information will be taken out or moved to a different area of the article but the sentences themselves are a bit jumbled. I think that the category climate change should say a little more instead of depending on the reader to click on the climate change article link. The category Causes of deforestation has subcategories that aren't consistent. For example, Climate Change is a small paragraph while Agricultural Expansion is 9 paragraphs long.
 * Sources
 * Wang, Jingfeng et al. “Impact of Deforestation in the Amazon Basin on Cloud Climatology.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS 106.10 (2009): 3670–3674. Web.
 * Song, Xiao-Peng et al. “Annual Carbon Emissions from Deforestation in the Amazon Basin Between 2000 and 2010.” PloS one 10.5 (2015): e0126754–e0126754. Web.
 * Sampaio, Gilvan et al. “CO2 Physiological Effect Can Cause Rainfall Decrease as Strong as Large-Scale Deforestation in the Amazon.” Biogeosciences 18.8 (2021): 2511–2525. Web.
 * Medvigy, David et al. “Simulated Changes in Northwest U.S. Climate in Response to Amazon Deforestation.” Journal of climate 26.22 (2013): 9115–9136. Web.
 * Sampaio, Gilvan et al. “CO2 Physiological Effect Can Cause Rainfall Decrease as Strong as Large-Scale Deforestation in the Amazon.” Biogeosciences 18.8 (2021): 2511–2525. Web.
 * Medvigy, David et al. “Simulated Changes in Northwest U.S. Climate in Response to Amazon Deforestation.” Journal of climate 26.22 (2013): 9115–9136. Web.

Option 3

 * Socioeconomics ( Socioeconomics - Wikipedia )
 * Article Evaluation
 * In this article I noticed that the sources are outdated and the subcategories to Socioeconomic factors of environmental change don't explain enough. They don't talk about how the environmental change is caused (by human activity). It only talks about what the effect of it is upon the economy and the people themselves. It also doesn't mention any solutions and how these solutions can also affect the economy.
 * Sources
 * Balancing Agricultural Development and Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon - Andrea Cattaneo - Google Books
 * Escobar, Herton. “Deforestation in the Amazon Is Shooting up, but Brazil’s President Calls the Data ‘a Lie.” Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (2019): n. pag. Web.
 * Le Tourneau, François-Michel. “Is Brazil Now in Control of Deforestation in the Amazon?” Cybergeo (2016): 769–. Web.
 * Hummel, Antônio Carlos. “Deforestation in the Amazon: What Is Illegal and What Is Not?” Elementa (Washington, D.C.) 4.3 (2016): n. pag. Web.
 * Assunção, Juliano, and Romero Rocha. “Getting Greener by Going Black: The Effect of Blacklisting Municipalities on Amazon Deforestation.” Environment and development economics 24.2 (2019): 115–137. Web.
 * Hummel, Antônio Carlos. “Deforestation in the Amazon: What Is Illegal and What Is Not?” Elementa (Washington, D.C.) 4.3 (2016): n. pag. Web.
 * Assunção, Juliano, and Romero Rocha. “Getting Greener by Going Black: The Effect of Blacklisting Municipalities on Amazon Deforestation.” Environment and development economics 24.2 (2019): 115–137. Web.

Option 4

 * Resource Depletion ( Resource depletion - Wikipedia )
 * Article Evaluation
 * The sources in this article are outdated. I think the main thing to fix in this article is the sources especially because this topic is very relevant to today.
 * Sources
 * Markewitz, Daniel et al. “Soil Moisture Depletion Under Simulated Drought in the Amazon: Impacts on Deep Root Uptake.” The New phytologist 187.3 (2010): 592–607. Web.
 * Putsche, Laura. “A Reassessment of Resource Depletion, Market Dependency, and Culture Change on a Shipibo Reserve in the Peruvian Amazon.” Human ecology : an interdisciplinary journal 28.1 (2000): 131–140. Web.
 * Andersen, Lykke E., and Lykke E. Andersen. The Dynamics of Deforestation and Economic Growth in the Brazilian Amazon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Print.
 * Kauano, Érico E, Jose M C Silva, and Fernanda Michalski. “Illegal Use of Natural Resources in Federal Protected Areas of the Brazilian Amazon.” PeerJ 5 (2017): e3902–e3902. Web.
 * Andersen, Lykke E., and Lykke E. Andersen. The Dynamics of Deforestation and Economic Growth in the Brazilian Amazon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Print.
 * Kauano, Érico E, Jose M C Silva, and Fernanda Michalski. “Illegal Use of Natural Resources in Federal Protected Areas of the Brazilian Amazon.” PeerJ 5 (2017): e3902–e3902. Web.