Eduardo Brondizio

Urban Forest and Rural Cities: Multi-sited Households, Consumption Patterns, and Forest Resources in Amazonia (2008)

Padoch, Christine, Brondizio, Eduardo, Costa, Sandra, Pinedo-Vasquez, Miguel, Sears, Robin R., Siqueira, Andrea

"In much of the Amazon Basin, approximately 70% of the population lives in urban areas and urbanward migration continues. Based on data collected over more than a decade in two long-settled regions...

Colonist household decisionmaking and land-use change in the Amazon Rainforest: an agent-based simulation

Peter Deadman, Derek Robinson, Emilio Moran, Eduardo Brondizio

An agent-based model was developed as a tool designed to explore our understanding of spatial, social, and environmental issues related to land-use/cover change. The model focuses on a study site in...