Forest resource use change during early market integration in tropical rain forests: The Huaorani of upper Amazonia

Ecological Economics

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 107-119

  Sierra, Rodrigo ^a   Rodriguez, Fabian ^b   Losos, Elizabeth ^c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EcoCiencia   (Ecuador)

^c SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Commercial commodities; Markets; Subsistence commodities; Trade; Tropical rain forest

Indexed keywords

FOREST RESOURCE; MARKET SYSTEM; RAINFOREST; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

ECUADOR;

EID: 0032783295     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8009(98)00101-3     Document Type: Article

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