Smallholder agriculture in Northeast Brazil: Assessing heterogeneous human-environmental dynamics

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 132-146

  Sietz, D ^a   Untied, B ^b   Walkenhorst, O ^a   Ludeke M K B ^a   Mertins, G ^b   Petschel Held, G ^a   Schellnhuber, H J ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b Department of Geography ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Qualitative modelling; Rural development; Rural poverty; Semi arid; Syndromes

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646734258     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-005-0010-9     Document Type: Article

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