The new rurality: Globalization, peasants and the paradoxes of landscapes

Land Use Policy

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 161-169

  Hecht, Susanna ^a  

^a Institute of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest recovery; Forest transition; Globalization; Peasant economies; Tropical forests

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; ECONOMIC INTEGRATION; ECONOMIC STRUCTURE; GLOBALIZATION; RURAL ECONOMY; RURAL LANDSCAPE; TROPICAL FOREST;

LATIN AMERICA;

EID: 70449622714     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2009.08.010     Document Type: Article

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