Urban Forest and Rural Cities: Multi-sited Households, Consumption Patterns, and Forest Resources in Amazonia

In much of the Amazon Basin, approximately 70% of the population lives in urban areas and urbanward migration continues. Based on data collected over more than a decade in two long-settled regions of Amazonia, we find that rural-urban migration in the region is an extended and complex process. Like...

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Main Authors: Christine Padoch, Eduardo Brondizio, Sandra Costa, Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez, Robin R. Sears, Andrea Siqueira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2008-12-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss2/art2/