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Autor:
John O. Browder
Publikováno v:
Fragile Lands of Latin America ISBN: 9780429042805
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https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429042805-1
https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429042805-1
Autor:
John O. Browder
This book of selected research papers, originally presented at the'Symposium of Fragile Lands of Latin America—The Search for Sustainable Uses,'presents some fresh evidence of the viability of a few'non-conventional'strategies for natural resource
Publikováno v:
Applied Geography. 43:171-181
Does the adoption of agroforestry by small farmers in the Brazilian Amazon promote secondary forest succession on the degraded pastures and crop fields? New results from a small-scale farm agroforestry demonstration project, the Rondonia Agroforestry
Autor:
Robert Walker, Ritaumaria Pereira, Cynthia S. Simmons, Ricardo Shirota, Eugenio Arima, Sergio de Zen, John O. Browder, Marcellus M. Caldas
Publikováno v:
Geoforum. 40:732-745
This paper seeks to understand how the Brazilian Amazon, which many thought unsuitable for agricultural development, has yielded to a dynamic cattle economy in only a few decades. It does so by embedding the Thunian model of location rents within the
Autor:
Eugenio Arima, Stephen Aldrich, John O. Browder, Robert Walker, Stephen G. Perz, Marcellus M. Caldas
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Economic Geography. 82:265-288
Tropical deforestation is a significant driver of global environmental change, given its impacts on the carbon cycle and biodiversity. Loss of the Amazon forest, the focus of this article, is of particular concern because of the size and the rapid ra
Autor:
Randolph H. Wynne, Marcos Antonio Pedlowski, Nancy Becerra-Cordoba, John O. Browder, Percy M. Summers, Joao Mil-Homens, Ana Abad, Robert Walker
Publikováno v:
World Development. 36:1469-1492
Summary In the 1970s, extensive areas of Brazilian Amazon were settled by landless farmers. These internal migrations prompted theoretical scholarship on the nature and outcomes of frontier expansion from three general frameworks: the capitalist pene
Publikováno v:
Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing. 73:813-827
This study evaluated segment-based classification paired with non-parametric methods (CART ® and kNN) and inter- annual, multi-temporal data in the classification of an 11-year chronosequence of Landsat TM/ETMimagery in the Brazilian Amazon. The kNN
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International Journal of Remote Sensing. 28:1299-1315
The Amazon basin remains a major hotspot of tropical deforestation, presenting a clear need for timely, accurate and consistent data on forest cover change. We assessed the utility of a hybrid classification technique, iterative guided spectral class
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Human Ecology. 32:197-224
Since the 1970s the Brazilian Amazon has received over 1 million migrant farm households from other regions of the country, many of whom were attracted to government-sponsored frontier settlement programs that offered free tropical forest land. As a
Autor:
John O. Browder
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Environmental Management. 29:750-762
Community-based conservation and development has become the prevailing programmatic paradigm of conservation organizations and development donors over the last 20 years, spawning a myriad of integrated conservation and development projects (ICDP) aro