The geography of large-scale land acquisitions: Analysing socio-ecological patterns of target contexts in the global South

Applied Geography

Volumn 53, Issue , 2014, Pages 449-459

  Messerli, Peter ^a   Giger, Markus ^a   Dwyer, Michael B ^b   Breu, Thomas ^a   Eckert, Sandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Geospatial analysis; Land use change; Large scale land acquisitions; Socio ecological indicators

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDOWNERSHIP; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84907352547     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2014.07.005     Document Type: Article

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