The literature on the rubber boom applied a Dependendist view of rubber production in the Brazilian Amazon. Even though … a sizable surplus was generated in the rubber chain, it was mostly appropriated by foreigners. This view is in tune with … the rubber chain. …

changes in the economic profile of timber extraction and processing in an old frontier area of Brazil, the county of …

The 2012 forest code in Brazil allows landowners with illegal deforestation carried out up to 2008 to comply with their … studies assessing the potential of this instrument in Brazil. As a contribution to the recent literature on this topic, this …

environmental struggle in the region is linked to Brazil's position in an evolving capitalist world-economy. It is shown how Brazil … as weapons of conservation, through boycotting certain products, while other pro-development groups within Brazil claim … that such organizations threaten Brazil's sovereignty over its own resources …