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Explaining the persistence of low income and environmentally degrading land uses in the Brazilian Amazon
(2017)Ecology and SocietyTropical forests continue to be plagued by the dual sustainability challenges of deforestation and rural poverty. We seek to understand why many of the farmers living in the Brazilian Amazon, home to the world’s largest tropical agricultural-forest frontier, persist in agricultural activities associated with low incomes and high environmental damage. To answer this question, we assess the factors that shape the development and distribution ...Journal Article