Frontier Expansion in the Amazon: Balancing Development and Sustainability

30 de julho de 2002

jul 30, 2002

Georgia O. Carvalho, Daniel Nepstad, David McGrath, Maria del Carmen Vera Diaz, Márcio Santilli, Ana Cristina Barros

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