Policy change, land use, and agriculture: The case of soy production and cattle ranching in Brazil, 2001-2012

Applied Geography

Volumn 55, Issue , 2014, Pages 203-211

  Gollnow, Florian ^a   Lakes, Tobia ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Indirect land use change; Land use and land cover change modeling; Land use displacement; Panel regression model; Policy regulations

Indexed keywords

ACTION PLAN; CATTLE; CROP PRODUCTION; DEFORESTATION; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; PANEL DATA; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; RANCHING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOYBEAN;

BRAZIL; MATO GROSSO;

BOS;

EID: 84907867652     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2014.09.003     Document Type: Article

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