Social-ecological changes in a Quilombola community in the atlantic forest of southeastern Brazil

Human Ecology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 913-927

  Thorkildsen, Kjersti ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Atlantic Forest; Biodiversity conservation; Brazil; Quilombola; Shifting cultivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027937798     PISSN: 03007839     EISSN: 15729915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10745-014-9691-3     Document Type: Article

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