Contrasted land use and development trajectories in the Brazilian Amazon

The Amazon is the largest tropical forest area on Earth, and is undergoing rapid deforestation since the last four decades. These conversions are mostly located in frontier areas distributed along the so-called “arc of deforestation”. Within this large zone, various land use change processes are int...

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Autores principales:	Mertens, B., Piketty, M.G., Venturieri, A., Alves, D., Tourrand, Jean François
Formato:	Journal Article
Lenguaje:	Inglés
Publicado:	2004
Materias:	deforestation land use agricultural development roads geographical information systems case studies spatial analysis econometric models
Acceso en línea:	https://hdl.handle.net/10568/18970