The role of ethnobotanical skills and agricultural labor in forest clearance: Evidence from the bolivian amazon

Ambio

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 310-321

  Reyes García, Victoria ^a,b   Pascual, Unai ^c,d   Vadez, Vincent ^e   Huanca, Tomás ^f  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d BASQUE CENTRE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE BC3   (Spain)

^e INTERNATIONAL CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE SEMI ARID TROPICS ICRISAT   (India)

^f CBIDSI Centro Boliviano de Investigacion y de Desarrollo Socio Integral   (Bolivia)

Author keywords

Ethnobotanical skills; Labor inputs; Market integration; Slash and burn agriculture; Tsimane (Bolivia)

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; AGROFORESTRY; CLEARCUTTING; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CULTIVATION; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ETHNOBOTANY; HORTICULTURE; MARKET CONDITIONS; NATURAL RESOURCE; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SURVEY;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BOLIVIA; ETHNOBOTANY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TREE;

AGRICULTURE; BOLIVIA; ETHNOBOTANY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; TREES;

BOLIVIA;

EID: 79955086757     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-010-0107-3     Document Type: Article

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