Explaining the persistence of low income and environmentally degrading land uses in the Brazilian Amazon
Tropical forests continue to be plagued by the dual sustainability challenges of deforestation and rural poverty. We seek to understand why many of the farmers living in the Brazilian Amazon, home to the world's largest tropical agricultural-forest frontier, persist in agricultural activities a...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Resilience Alliance
2017-09-01
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| Series: | Ecology and Society |
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| Online Access: | http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol22/iss3/art27/ |