Brazilian indigenous lands prevent the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest while
protecting the land rights of indigenous peoples. However, they are at risk because they …

As global capitalism is expanding to the most remote areas of the world, the notion of
“frontier”, where competing social orders are contesting each other, is gaining traction in …

A multi-functionality framework is used to critically evaluate rural and eco-tourism in the
Central Amazon. This part of the region is shown to have the best potential for both …

The lives of the urban poor in the majority world are unfree: blighted by social injustice in its
manifold forms, from violence and ill-health to absent economic opportunities. We explore …

This study analyzes the distribution of cultural values associated with forest and non-forest
landscapes among stakeholder groups shaping land use and land cover change (LULCC) …

Changes in the nature, scale, and speed of natural resource extraction, especially in the last
two decades, have resulted in many new resource extraction areas emerging across the …

There is a large research literature on the impacts of roads and other infrastructure, which
highlights the economic benefits, environmental harms and social problems. Most previous …

This research adopts Jason Moore's concept of the commodity frontier, which portrays the
socio-ecological impacts of capitalist expansion, to analyze the spread of Independent …

Regional trends of global significance involving frontier peasants in deforestation are seen
through the eyes of those who produce them in remote places of the Amazon, where during …

The examination of social and ecological trajectories in two smallholder communities that
experienced land conflicts in the 1980s provides empirical evidences for the formulation of a …