Unofficial road building in the Brazilian Amazon: Dilemmas and models for road governance

Environmental Conservation

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 112-121

  Perz, Stephen G ^a   Overdevest, Christine ^a   Caldas, Marcellus M ^b   Walker, Robert T ^c   Arima, Eugênio Y ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon; Brazil; Forest fragmentation; Governance; Land use; Road ecology

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; GOVERNANCE; LANDSCAPES; ROAD ECOLOGY;

LAND USE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT;

ECOSYSTEMS;

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; COMMUNITY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; FOREST CLEARANCE; FRONTIER REGION; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; TRADE-OFF;

BRAZIL; CONFLICT; DECISION MAKING; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FOREST FRAGMENTATION; REVIEW;

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 34447555838     PISSN: 03768929     EISSN: 14694387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0376892907003827     Document Type: Review

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