Coca and conservation: Cultivation, eradication, and trafficking in the Amazon borderlands

GeoJournal

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 41-60

  Salisbury, D S ^a,b   Fagan, C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE UCAYALI   (Peru)

^c Upper Amazon Conservancy   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Border; Brazil; Coca; Conservation; Peru

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; LAND USE; TRANSPORTATION ROUTES;

AMAZONIA; BORDER; BRAZIL; COCA; PERU;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CROP PRODUCTION; CULTIVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FERTILITY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; ISOLATED POPULATION; RAINFOREST; REGIONAL PATTERN; RIVER; SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL VARIATION;

BRAZIL; PERU; PURUS RIVER; UCAYALI RIVER;

EID: 84872945348     PISSN: 03432521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10708-011-9430-x     Document Type: Article

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