Sustainable Settlement in the Brazilian Amazon (A World Bank Publication)

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pp. ix 189.”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”

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ISBN 0195211049
ISBN13 9780195211047
Number of pages 189
Original Title Sustainable Settlement in the Brazilian Amazon (A World Bank Publication)
Published Date 1995
Book Condition Very Good
Jacket Condition Illustrated Boards
Binding Hardcover
Size 8vo
Place of Publication Oxford
Edition First Edition
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pp. ix 189.”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”

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Weight 1 kg