Company-Community Logging Contracts in Amazonian Settlements: Impacts on Livelihoods and NTFP Harvests

As a result of government-sponsored colonization, more than 500 000 km2 of the Brazilian Amazon is managed by settlement households. By law, 80% of this land must remain as standing forest. In this study, we examine the potential for timber harvesting through company-community partnerships (CCPs) a...

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Main Authors: Mary C. S. Menton, Frank D. Merry, Anna Lawrence, Nick Brown
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2009-06-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol14/iss1/art39/