Highly Optimized Tolerant (HOT) Farms in Rondônia: Productivity and Farm Size, and Implications for Environmental Licensing

This paper operationalizes the concept of highly optimized tolerance (HOT) for the case of smallholder agriculture in Rondônia, Brazil. It seeks to understand how characteristics of family farms shift as a function of property size, arguing that as production intensifies, properties move closer to a...

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Main Author: Andrew Reid. Bell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2011-06-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol16/iss2/art7/