Regional integration and local change: Road paving, community connectivity, and social-ecological resilience in a tri-national frontier, southwestern Amazonia

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 35-53

  Perz, Stephen G ^a   Cabrera, Liliana ^b   Carvalho, Lucas Araújo ^c   Castillo, Jorge ^d   Chacacanta, Rosmery ^d   Cossio, Rosa E ^a   Solano, Yeni Franco ^d   Hoelle, Jeffrey ^e   Perales, Leonor Mercedes ^f   Puerta, Israel ^b   Céspedes, Daniel Rojas ^b   Camacho, Ioav Rojas ^b   Silva, Adão Costa ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Universidad Amazónica de Pando Centro de Investigación y Preservación de la Amazónia   (Bolivia)

^c UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO ACRE   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AMAZÓNICA DE MADRE DE DIOS   (Peru)

^e SENAMHI ^*  (United States)

^f Universidad Amazónica de Pando ^*  (Peru)

Author keywords

Amazon; Connectivity; Globalization; Infrastructure; Resilience

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856967251     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-011-0233-x     Document Type: Article

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