The Livestock Frontier in the Paraguayan Chaco: A Local Agent-based Perspective.
Deforestation is one of the most relevant transformations characterizing global environmental change in the tropics at present. There is wide consensus in pointing the context-dependent nature of tropical deforestation. In this sense, a better characterization of the phenomenon considering the socia...
| Publicado en: | Environmental Management Vol. 73; no. 6; pp. 1231 - 1247 |
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Springer Nature
Jun2024
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