The diffusion of cattle ranching and deforestation: Prospects for a hollow frontier in Mexico's Yucatán

Land Economics

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 682-698

  Busch, Christopher B ^a   Vance, Colin ^b  

^a Center for Resource Solutions   (United States)

^b JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATTLE; DEFORESTATION; ECONOMETRICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PASTURE; RANCHING; SOCIAL NETWORK;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; YUCATAN;

BOS;

EID: 80053316402     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/le.87.4.682     Document Type: Article

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