Contentious Land Change in the Amazon's Arc of Deforestation

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 103-128

  Aldrich, Stephen ^a   Walker, Robert ^b   Simmons, Cynthia ^b   Caldas, Marcellus ^c   Perz, Stephen ^d  

^a INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon; deforestation; land change science; land reform; political ecology

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DEFORESTATION; LAND USE CHANGE; METHODOLOGY; MICROECONOMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BRAZIL;

EID: 84857828486     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2011.620501     Document Type: Article

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