Migration to the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala: Why Place Matters
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Migration to the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala: Why place matters.
Virtually all migration research examines international migration or urbanization. Yet understudied rural migrants are of critical concern for environmental conservation and rural sustainable development. Despite the fact that a relatively small number of all migrants settle remote rural frontiers, these are the agents responsible for perhaps most of the tropical deforestation on the planet. Fu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Human Organization
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0018-7259,1938-3525
DOI: 10.17730/humo.67.1.lvk2584002111374