Rapid urbanization is particularly pronounced in the developing world, including countries in the Amazon region. The increasing prominence of cities poses new threats and opportunities to people typically described as "rural," and to the natural environments on which they often depend. Although rural development and urbanization are often seen as competing processes, in most cases, they are intimately linked. The livelihoods of rural and urban households increasingly rely on a combination of rural and urban resources, and on the diversification of income-generating activities, which often involves mobility and migration. However, scholarship has tended to focus either on the impacts of growing rural-urban linkages on local economies and liv...
One of the primary challenges facing researchers and practitioners in their efforts to address issu...
Demographic and migration characteristics of riberenos , the largest population group in the Amazon ...
Finding new pathways for reconciling socioeconomic well-being and nature sustainability is criticall...
Poor people in rural areas of developing countries are considered to be particularly vulnerable. Res...
The livelihoods of Amazonian peasants are often highly dependent on the unique characteristics of th...
International audienceIn recent years, the Amazon has experienced simultaneous processes of urbanisa...
Analyses of development in the Brazilian Amazon have concentrated largely on two frameworks. Moderni...
Rural–urban migration can have both positive and negative environmental consequences for tropical fo...
Amazonian research demonstrates substantial urban consumption of wildmeat and documents the existenc...
textAbstract: This study examines how differential accessibility to regional markets and natural res...
Recent evidence indicates profound changes in population mobility in the Amazon frontier. Following ...
The spatial distribution and growth of human populations have been overlooked by current debates con...
Access to markets is increasingly regarded in development circles as a critical factor in determinin...
The spatial distribution and growth of human populations have been overlooked by current debates con...
International climate mitigation agendas increasingly focus on the conservation of tropical forests ...
One of the primary challenges facing researchers and practitioners in their efforts to address issu...
Demographic and migration characteristics of riberenos , the largest population group in the Amazon ...
Finding new pathways for reconciling socioeconomic well-being and nature sustainability is criticall...
Poor people in rural areas of developing countries are considered to be particularly vulnerable. Res...
The livelihoods of Amazonian peasants are often highly dependent on the unique characteristics of th...
International audienceIn recent years, the Amazon has experienced simultaneous processes of urbanisa...
Analyses of development in the Brazilian Amazon have concentrated largely on two frameworks. Moderni...
Rural–urban migration can have both positive and negative environmental consequences for tropical fo...
Amazonian research demonstrates substantial urban consumption of wildmeat and documents the existenc...
textAbstract: This study examines how differential accessibility to regional markets and natural res...
Recent evidence indicates profound changes in population mobility in the Amazon frontier. Following ...
The spatial distribution and growth of human populations have been overlooked by current debates con...
Access to markets is increasingly regarded in development circles as a critical factor in determinin...
The spatial distribution and growth of human populations have been overlooked by current debates con...
International climate mitigation agendas increasingly focus on the conservation of tropical forests ...
One of the primary challenges facing researchers and practitioners in their efforts to address issu...
Demographic and migration characteristics of riberenos , the largest population group in the Amazon ...
Finding new pathways for reconciling socioeconomic well-being and nature sustainability is criticall...