Subsidized agricultural resettlements as drivers of tropical deforestation

Biological Conservation

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 65-68

  Peres, Carlos A ^a   Schneider, Maurício ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b Câmara dos Deputados ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

Agrarian reform; Agriculture; Amazonia; Deforestation; INCRA; Land distribution; Migration; Smallholders

Indexed keywords

AGRARIAN REFORM; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; LAND TENURE; LAND USE CHANGE; LAND USE PLANNING; MIGRANT WORKER; RESETTLEMENT POLICY; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; SMALLHOLDER; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; SUBSIDY SYSTEM; TROPICAL FOREST; TROPICAL REGION;

AMAZONIA; BRAZIL;

EID: 84862025964     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.11.011     Document Type: Review

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