Volume 6, Issue 1-2 | Urban Ecosystems

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Volume 6, Issue 1-2

March 2002

Special Issue: Ecological Implications of Urban-Rural Linkages in Developing Countries

7 articles in this issue

Urban rural linkages and environmental change: Addressing the human dynamics of urban ecologies
Cynthia S. Simmons
Cynthia Sorrensen
Robert Walker
Introduction Pages: 5 - 8
Urban forest and environmental inequality in Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Marcos A. Pedlowski
Victor Andrade Carneiro Da Silva
Nikolas C. Heynen
OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 20
The urban-rural interface: Urbanization and tropical forest cover change
John O. Browder
OriginalPaper Pages: 21 - 41
House-lot gardens in Santarém, Pará, Brazil: Linking rural with urban
Antoinette M.G.A. WinklerPrins
OriginalPaper Pages: 43 - 65
The urban market of Açaí fruit (Euterpe oleracea Mart.) and rural land use change: Ethnographic insights into the role of price and land tenure constraining agricultural choices in the Amazon estuary
Eduardo S. Brondízio
Carolina A.M. Safar
Andréa D. Siqueira
OriginalPaper Pages: 67 - 97
The changing dynamics of land conflict in the Brazilian Amazon: The rural-urban complex and its environmental implications
Cynthia S. Simmons
Stephen Perz
Luiz Guilherme Teixeira Silva
OriginalPaper Pages: 99 - 121
Frontier spaces of vulnerability: Regional change, urbanization, drought and fire hazard in Santarém, Pará, Brazil
Cynthia L. Sorrensen
OriginalPaper Pages: 123 - 144