Smallholder timber sale decisions on the Amazon frontier

Ecological Economics

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1787-1796

  Amacher, Gregory S ^a   Merry, Frank D ^b,c   Bowman, Maria S ^b  

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

^b WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO DE PESQUISA AMBIENTAL DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazon; Deforestation; Household model; Smallholders; Timber supply

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DEFORESTATION; ECONOMETRICS; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; LABOR; MARKET; PROPERTY RIGHTS; SETTLEMENT PATTERN; SMALLHOLDER; SURVEY; TIMBER MARKET;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 62349097748     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2008.11.018     Document Type: Article

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