The new rurality: Globalization, peasants and the paradoxes of landscapes

By S. Hecht. 2010

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Deforestation captures most of the headlines, but there are also processes of forest expansion that are widespread in Latin America. This paper explores why this process is so invisible. Globalization plays an increasingly important role in structuring rural economies. This paper analyses how global integration of many types, ranging from remittances, state transfers, skilling and markets produced forest recovery in peasant landscapes.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Global and Planetary Change, Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

Linking Globalization to Local Land Uses: How Eco-Consumers and Gourmands are Changing the Colombian Coffee Landscapes (2013, background): “…with globalization, also creates complex, less direct interactions between markets and land uses as the case of globalized labor force movements and bio-fuel energy mandates illustrate (Fargione, Hill, Tilman, Polasky, & Hawthorne, 2008; Hecht, 2010; Koh, Miettinen, Liew, & Ghazoul, 2011).”
Comparing the determinants of cropland abandonment in Albania and Romania using boosted regression trees (2013, background): “The progression of the postsocialist transition resembles recent developments in other countries related to economic globalization that have also resulted in an increased flow of goods, services, and information (Gallagher, 2009; Hecht, 2010).”