Forests as landscapes of social inequality: tropical forest cover and land distribution among shifting cultivators
Can social inequality be seen imprinted in a forest landscape? We studied the relationship between land holding, land use, and inequality in a peasant community in the Peruvian Amazon where farmers practice swidden-fallow cultivation. Longitudinal data on land holding, land use, and land cover were...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Resilience Alliance
2016-09-01
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| Series: | Ecology and Society |
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| Online Access: | http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol21/iss3/art20/ |