Sustainable Settlement in the Brazilian Amazon

Name: Sustainable Settlement in the Brazilian Amazon
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ISBN: 9780195211047

ISBN-10: 0195211049

ISBN-13: 9780195211047

Edition: 1995

Authors: Anna De Almeida, Joao S. Campari

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This study is based on field surveys conducted in the Brazilian Amazon and covers twenty years of settlement experience. Its findings reveal that much of the Amazonian frontier land deforested by pioneers in the 1970s is becoming agriculturally unproductive. In response to the Brazilian economic crisis of the 1980s, a growing urban middle class began buying such land and holding it as a store of value, causing original settlers to leave and migrate to new frontiers within the Amazon. The authors conclude that for small farmers to be prevented from moving on and clearing new frontiers, they must be rewarded for staying in the old ones. This requires promoting good farming, punishing…

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List price: $54.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/21/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 300
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Foreword



Introduction and Principal Findings



Population Shifts in the Amazon during the 1980s



Economic Shifts in the Amazon during the 1980s



Land Markets and Sustainable Frontier Farming



Productive and Speculative Deforestation by Frontier Small Farmers



Policy implications: Institutional Improvements for Sustainable


Settlement in the Amazon


App. A. Descriptive Tables


App. B. Empirical Procedures


App. C. A Model of Amazonian Deforestation


App. D. Econometric Results


Bibliography


Index