Pasture-led to logging-led deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: The dynamics of socio-environmental change

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 63-79

  Parayil, Govindan ^a   Tong, Florence ^b  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; LOGGING;

BRAZIL, AMAZONIA;

EID: 0032051416     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-3780(97)00020-4     Document Type: Article

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