Forests lost and found in tropical Latin America: the woodland ‘green revolution’

Journal of Peasant Studies

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 877-909

  Hecht, Susanna B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

deforestation; forest transitions; globalization; governance; green neoliberalism; markets; migration; new rurality; REDD; remittances; social policy; structural change; urbanization

Indexed keywords

CIVIL SOCIETY; DEFORESTATION; FOREST DYNAMICS; GLOBALIZATION; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; GREEN REVOLUTION; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MIGRATION; NEOLIBERALISM; SOCIAL MOVEMENT; SOCIAL POLICY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; URBANIZATION; WOODLAND;

LATIN AMERICA;

EID: 85027929215     PISSN: 03066150     EISSN: 17439361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2014.917371     Document Type: Article

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