When Fields Revert to Forest: Development and Spontaneous Reforestation in Post-War Puerto Rico

Professional Geographer

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 386-397

  Rudel, Thomas K ^a   Perez Lugo, Marla ^a   Zichal, Heather ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Forest transition; Puerto Rico; Reforestation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; POST-WAR; RECOLONIZATION; REFORESTATION;

PUERTO RICO;

EID: 0033810804     PISSN: 00330124     EISSN: 14679272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0033-0124.00233     Document Type: Article

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