Agronomic or contentious land change? A longitudinal analysis from the Eastern Brazilian Amazon.

Since 1984, nearly 1,000 people have been killed in the Brazilian Amazon due to land conflicts stemming from unequal distribution of land, land tenure insecurity, and lawlessness. During this same period, the region experienced almost complete deforestation (< 8% forest cover by 2010). Land confl...

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Main Authors: Stephen P Aldrich, Cynthia S Simmons, Eugenio Arima, Robert T Walker, Fernando Michelotti, Edna Castro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227378