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Dinâmica socioeconômica e desmatamento na Amazônia

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Castro, Edna·2005·Novos Cadernos NAEA

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This text shows the importance to understanding the rationality of actors and the motivation, both of individuals and groups, which show the main causes of the advance of the economic activities and of deforestation. This is revealed in the analysis of socio-spatial strategies and the main social actors and economic agents present in new frontier areas. It reveals the present mechanisms in the relation between the interests of the economic agents and the political processes. It examines how networks are built to integrate the local and the globe, defining the tendencies to the globalized market action in the region.

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  • Deforestation confers on the occupant greater capitalization (because deforested land is more valued) and provides benefits through the sale of wood and the development of cattle activities.

    “In fact, as observed in section 2, deforestation confers on the occupant greater capitalization (because deforested land is more valued) and provides benefits through the sale of wood and the development of cattle activities.”

    From Land inequality and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon (2017) · cites this paper as Castro (2005)

    The Introduction links capitalization and income to cattle ranching alongside timber exploitation, and section 9 says settlers sell wood from their plots. But the paper does not say that clearing itself makes land more valuable; section 5 instead links rising land prices to new demand for soy production. The specific explanation for greater capitalization is therefore unsupported. (LLM, conf=0.86)

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  1. SCHRADER, A. (eds.). Homem e natureza na Amazônia/Humbre y naturaleza en la Amazonia. Tubingen: Universidade de Tubingen, 1987. p. 45-57.
  2. FOWERAKER, Joe. The struggle for land: A political economy of the pioneer frontier in Brazil from 1930 to the present day. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
  3. LEFF, E. Green production: toward an environmental rationality. New York/ London: The Guilford Press, 1999.
  4. MARGALEFF, R. Perspectives in ecological theory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968.
  5. NASH, R. The rights of nature: a history of environmental ethics. Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.
  6. PACHECO, Pablo. Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: a review of estimates of the municipal level. Belém, 2002. (não publicado)

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Authors
Castro, E.
Affiliations
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (BR)
Corresponding author
Castro, Edna
Venue
Novos Cadernos NAEA
Published
2005-12-18
Volume
8
Issue
2
ISSN
  • 1516-6481 (ISSN-L)
  • 2179-7536
OpenAlex
W1999614892
Cited by
75
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Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Social Sciences and Humanities
Keywords
deforestation, socio-economic dynamics, Amazon, frontier areas, economic agents, actor rationality, political process, globalization, economic networks, global-local integration

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