Deforestation and Cattle Ranching in the Brazilian Amazon: External Capital and Household Processes

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• Publication year

  2000

• Venue

  World Development

• Publication date

  2000-04-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Economics, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/S0305-750X(99)00149-7
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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