@Article{SolerVerbAlve:2014:FrExMa,
               author = "Soler, Luciana and Verburg, Peter and Alves, Di{\'o}genes Salas",
          affiliation = "{} and {} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)}",
                title = "Evolution of Land Use in the Brazilian Amazon: From Frontier 
                         Expansion to Market Chain Dynamics",
              journal = "Land",
                 year = "2014",
               volume = "3",
               number = "3",
                pages = "981--1014",
             keywords = "land use, land distribution, accessibility, deforestation 
                         frontier, Amazon, Brazil.",
             abstract = "Agricultural census data and fieldwork observations are used to 
                         analyze changes in land cover/use intensity across Rond{\^o}nia 
                         and Mato Grosso states along the agricultural frontier in the 
                         Brazilian Amazon. Results show that the development of land use is 
                         strongly related to land distribution structure. While large farms 
                         have increased their share of annual and perennial crops, small 
                         and medium size farms have strong ly contributed to the 
                         development of beef and milk market chains in both Rond{\^o}nia 
                         and Mato Grosso. Land use intensification has occurred in the form 
                         of increased use of machinery, labor in agriculture and stocking 
                         rates of cattle herds. Regional and national demands have improved 
                         infrastructure and productivity. The data presented show that the 
                         distinct pathways of land use development are related to 
                         accessibility to markets and processing industry as well as to the 
                         agricultural colonization history of the region. The data analyzed 
                         do not provide any indication of frontier stagnation, i.e., the 
                         slowdown of agricultural expansion, in the Brazilian Amazon. 
                         Instead of frontier stagnation, the data analyzed indicate that 
                         intensification processes in consolidated areas as well as recent 
                         agricultural expansion into forest areas are able to explain the 
                         cycle of expansion and retraction of the agricultural frontier 
                         into the Amazon region. The evolution of land use is useful for 
                         scenario analysis of both land cover change and land use 
                         intensification and provides insights into the role of market 
                         development and policies on land use.",
                  doi = "10.3390/land3030981",
                  url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land3030981",
                 issn = "2073-445X",
                label = "lattes: 9191097222405687 3 SolerVerbAlve:2014:FrExMa",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "
                         
                         soler-verburg-alves-2014-fromfrontierexpansiontomarketchaindynamics.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "28 abr. 2024"
}