The “demonization” of rainforest migrants, or: what conservation means to poor colonist farmers

Poor peasants – particularly rainforest colonists, who were heralded as pioneers until quite recently – are often blamed for the destruction of the world’s remaining tropical forests. This chapter uses a political ecology approach to examine rainforest colonization in the buffer zone of Nicaragua’s...

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Main Author: Larson, A.M.
Format: Book Chapter
Language:Inglés
Published: Springer 2010
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/20481

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