Ecuador goes bananas: incremental technological change and forest loss

What policy lessons derive from the half-century of banana expansion in the coastal region? For that whole period bananas had a catalytic role in promoting coastal deforestation. At first, this was mostly through direct banana frontier expansion. Later the gradual settlement effects proved key. Mode...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Wunder, Sven
Format:	Book Chapter
Language:	Inglés
Published:	CAB International 2001
Subjects:	bananas plantations deforestation land use coastal areas road construction migrant labour immigration
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/10568/18309