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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Main Authors:	Mertens, B., Piketty, M.G., Venturieri, A., Alves, D., Tourrand, Jean François
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	Inglés
Published:	2004
Subjects:	deforestation land use agricultural development roads geographical information systems case studies spatial analysis econometric models
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/10568/18970