Labor scarcity as an underlying cause of the increasing prevalence of deforestation due to cattle pasture development in the southern Yucatán region

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 191-203

  Busch, Christopher ^a   Geoghegan, Jacqueline ^b  

^a Center for Resource Solutions   (United States)

^b CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deforestation; Land use change; Modeling agricultural; Yucat n

Indexed keywords

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EID: 77956180782     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-010-0110-z     Document Type: Article

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