There's nothing inherent about scale: Political ecology, the local trap, and the politics of development in the Brazilian Amazon

Geoforum

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 607-624

  Brown, J Christopher ^a   Purcell, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Brazil; Political ecology; Political economy; Scale

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK; POLITICAL ECONOMY; SCALE EFFECT;

AMAZONIA; BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 24344508570     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2004.09.001     Document Type: Article

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