Revisiting Theories of Frontier Expansion in the Brazilian Amazon: A Survey of the Colonist Farming Population in Rondônia’s Post-Frontier, 1992–2002

By J. Browder, M. Pedlowski, R. Walker, R. Wynne, P. Summers, A. Abad, Nancy Becerra-Cordoba, J. Mil-Homens. 2008

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Linking Land Change with Driving Forces and Actors: Four Conceptual Models (2010, background): “Land use models can be used to test theory by exploring to what extent theoretical relations correspond to reality (Matthews et al. 2007, Browder et al. 2008).”
Rents, Actors, and the Expansion of Commodity Frontiers in the Gran Chaco (2018, background): “The intersectoral articulation thesis analyzes how capital accumulation in the secondary and tertiary sectors builds on the captive labor force of smallholders (Browder et al. 2008).”
Ranching and the new global range: Amazônia in the 21st century (2009, background): “This aggregate picture is consistent with field-based ethnography that has established an overwhelming movement toward pasture-dominated farming systems in active frontiers, even among small-holders (Walker et al., 2000; Walker, 2003; Browder et al., 2008).”