Revisiting Theories of Frontier Expansion in the Brazilian Amazon: A Survey of the Colonist Farming Population in Rondônia's Post-Frontier, 1992-2002

World Development

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1469-1492

  Browder, John O ^a   Pedlowski, Marcos A ^b   Walker, Robert ^c   Wynne, Randolph H ^a   Summers, Percy M ^a   Abad, Ana ^a   Becerra Cordoba, Nancy ^a   Mil Homens, Joao ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DO NORTE FLUMINENSE DARCY RIBEIRO   (Brazil)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

agricultural development; Amazon; Brazil; Frontier settlement; land tenure change; socio economic differentiation

Indexed keywords

AGRARIAN CHANGE; AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FRONTIER REGION; INTERNAL MIGRATION; LAND TENURE; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION;

AMAZONIA; BRAZIL; RONDONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 47049096487     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2007.08.008     Document Type: Article

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