Recent transformations of land-use and land-cover dynamics across different deforestation frontiers in the Brazilian Amazon

Land Use Policy

Volumn 76, Issue , 2018, Pages 81-94

  Schielein, Johannes ^a   Börner, Jan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amazon; Brazil; Deforestation; Forest frontiers; Forest transition; LUCC

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DEFORESTATION; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; GOVERNMENT; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LAW ENFORCEMENT; REFORM PROCESS; STATE ROLE; SUSTAINABILITY;

AMAZONIA; BRAZIL;

BOS;

EID: 85046667393     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.04.052     Document Type: Article

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