Amazonian exploitation revisited: Ecological asymmetry and the policy pendulum

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 457-465

  Bush, Mark B ^a   Silman, Miles R ^b  

^a Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; EXPLOITATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; RIVER CHANNEL;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 85047685543     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/070018     Document Type: Review

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