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Metropolitanization and Forest Recovery in Southern Brazil: A Multiscale Analysis of the Florianopolis City-Region, Santa Catarina State, 1970 to 2005

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dc.contributor.author Baptista, Sandra R. en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-07-31T14:58:52Z
dc.date.available 2009-07-31T14:58:52Z
dc.date.issued 2008 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2009-02-04 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2009-02-04 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/3242
dc.description.abstract "Within the contexts of globalization and the Atlantic Forest ecoregion, I present a multiscale analysis of anthropogenic landscape dynamics in the Florianopolis city-region, Santa Catarina, southern Brazil. Drawing on field research conducted between 2000 and 2004 and a review of the literature, I examined Brazilian demographic and agricultural census data for the period of 1970 to 1995-1996. I hypothesized that economic restructuring, new institutional arrangements, and the valuation of environmental amenities and ecosystem services have contributed to forest recovery trends and thus a forest transition in the city-region. My results indicate that along with rapid urbanization, in-migration, socioeconomic polarization, and segregation, the city-region has experienced the contraction of private agricultural land area, expansion of protected areas, recovery of forests, and conversion of coastal plain ecosystems to built environments. Future analyses of forest transition dynamics should consider the spatial configurations of socioeconomic inequality in city-regions." en_US
dc.subject forests en_US
dc.subject environment en_US
dc.subject forest management en_US
dc.subject globalization en_US
dc.subject land tenure and use en_US
dc.subject urbanization en_US
dc.subject migration en_US
dc.subject inequality en_US
dc.title Metropolitanization and Forest Recovery in Southern Brazil: A Multiscale Analysis of the Florianopolis City-Region, Santa Catarina State, 1970 to 2005 en_US
dc.type Journal Article en_US
dc.type.published published en_US
dc.coverage.region South America en_US
dc.coverage.country Brazil en_US
dc.subject.sector Urban Commons en_US
dc.subject.sector Forestry en_US
dc.identifier.citationjournal Ecology and Society en_US
dc.identifier.citationvolume 13 en_US
dc.identifier.citationnumber 2 en_US
dc.identifier.citationmonth January en_US


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