Sustainable Amazon : limitations and opportunities for rural development

The report contributes to the debate surrounding land use in the Brazilian Amazon. It sets the context by reviewing the evidence concerning the deleterious effect of increasing levels of rainfall on agricultural settlement, and productivity. Next, it compares the economic future of an Amazonian comm...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schneider, Robert R
Corporate Author: Banco Mundial
Other Authors: Arima, Eugenio, Veríssimo, Adalberto
Format: Book
Published: Washington, D.C. World Bank 2002
Series:World Bank technical paper. Environment series no. 515
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