Explaining the persistence of low income and environmentally degrading land uses in the Brazilian Amazon

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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Main Authors:	Rachael D. Garrett, Toby A. Gardner, Thiago Fonseca. Morello, Sebastien Marchand, Jos Barlow, Driss Ezzine de Blas, Joice Ferreira, Alexander C. Lees, Luke Parry
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Resilience Alliance 2017-09-01
Series:	Ecology and Society
Subjects:	cattle land use transitions rural development social capital sustainable livelihoods
Online Access:	http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol22/iss3/art27/

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