Industrial development on logging frontiers in the Brazilian Amazon

International Journal of Sustainable Development

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 277-296

  Merry, Frank ^a   Amacher, Gregory ^b   Nepstad, Daniel ^a   Lima, Eirivelthon ^c   Lefebvre, Paul ^a   Bauch, Simone ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO DE PESQUISA AMBIENTAL DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazon; Forest policy; Industrial organisation; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; PUBLIC POLICY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TIMBER;

AMAZON; FOREST POLICY; INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION;

LOGGING (FORESTRY);

INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; INDUSTRIALIZATION; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION;

DEFORESTATION; DEVELOPMENT; FORESTS; LOGGING; ORGANIZATIONS;

AMAZON RIVER; BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 34248142241     PISSN: 09601406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJSD.2006.012849     Document Type: Review

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