Ranching and the new global range: Amazônia in the 21st century

Geoforum

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 732-745

  Walker, Robert ^a   Browder, John ^b   Arima, Eugenio ^c   Simmons, Cynthia ^a   Pereira, Ritaumaria ^a   Caldas, Marcellus ^d   Shirota, Ricardo ^e   Zen, Sergio de ^e  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VPI   (United States)

^c HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES   (United States)

^d KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazon; Cattle; Deforestation; Forest transition; Land change science; Political ecology

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; CATTLE; DEFORESTATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; LAND USE PLANNING; POLICY APPROACH; RANCHING; REGIONAL ECONOMY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; BOS; THUNIA;

EID: 70449527784     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2008.10.009     Document Type: Article

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