Brazil nut harvesting in Peruvian Amazonia from the perspective of ecosystem services
Brazil nuts are harvested from the primary rainforests in the Amazonian lowlands as a direct form of sustainably using the region’s biological resources. We analyze the ecological economics of Brazil nut production in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios where nut extraction occurs on hundreds of sm...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Geographical Society of Finland
2011-01-01
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Series: | Fennia: International Journal of Geography |
Online Access: | http://ojs.tsv.fi/index.php/fennia/article/view/4307 |