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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Autor principal: Larson, A.M.
Formato: Capítulo de libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Springer 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/20481

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