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This paper presents a theoretical discussion of processes linking land use decisions and land cover outcomes at household level, with an emphasis on small proceduers. Evidence from the literature substantiating the existence of domestic cycle phenomena is brought forward and interpreted for the Brazilian case. Also considered are the relative disposition of production factors in the frontier development process, implications for the exercise of political power, and relationships between land concentration and ecological change. The paper concludes with a discussion of traditional land use...

The articles presented in this special issue of Ecological Economics address the important theme of land use dynamics as it pertains to the Brazilian Amazon. Much environmental change is an ecological artifact of human agency, and such agency is often manifested in land use impacts, particularly in tropical areas. The critical problem of tropical deforestation is but one example of a land use dynamic; consequently, such problems are productively conceptualized in these terms. The present issue represents an explicit step in the direction of comprehending human encroachment into the...