Potential hazards of land policy: Conservation, rural development and fire use in the Brazilian Amazon

Land Use Policy

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 782-791

  Sorrensen, Cynthia ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation; Fire hazard; Land tenure; Land use policy; Rural development

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION STATUS; FIRE MANAGEMENT; LAND TENURE; LAND USE PLANNING; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; RURAL PLANNING;

AMAZONIA; BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 60449088443     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2008.10.007     Document Type: Article

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