Smallholders, the Amazon's new conservationists

Conservation Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1553-1556

  Campos, Marina T ^a,b,d   Nepstad, Daniel C ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC BOTANY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE PESQUISA AMBIENTAL DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^c WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALLHOLDER;

AGRICULTURE; BRAZIL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AGRICULTURE; BRAZIL; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; PRIVATE SECTOR; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33748946941     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2006.00546.x     Document Type: Review

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