Where Deforestation Leads to Urbanization: How Resource Extraction Is Leading to Urban Growth in the Brazilian Amazon

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 806-823

  Richards, Peter ^a   VanWey, Leah ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brazilian Amazon; development; urban growth

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; URBAN GROWTH; URBANIZATION;

AMAZONIA; BRAZIL;

EID: 84937803218     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2015.1052337     Document Type: Article

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