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Caldas, M, Walker, R.T., Arima, E., Perz, S., Aldrich, S. and Simmons, C. 2007. Theorizing Land Cover and Land Use Change: The Peasant Economy of Amazonian Deforestation, Annals of the Association of American Geographers 97(1): 86-100.

WinklerPrins, A.M.G.A.  2006. Jute Cultivation in the Lower Amazon, 1940-1990: An Ethnographic Account from Santarém, Pará, Brazil.  Journal of Historical Geography 32(4): 818-838.

Aldrich, S., Walker, R.T., Arima, E., Caldas, M., Browder, J., and Perz, S. 2006. Land-Cover and Land-Use Change in the Brazilian Amazon: Smallholders, Ranchers, and Frontier Stratification. Economic Geography. 82(3): 265-288.

Perz, S., Walker, R.T., and Caldas, M. 2006. Beyond Population and Environment: Household Demographic Life Cycles and Land Use Allocation Among Small Farms in the Amazon. Human Ecology. 34: 829-849.

Arima, E., Walker, R.T., Perz, S., and Caldas, M. 2005 Loggers and Forest Fragmentation: Behavioral models of road building in the Amazon basin, Annals of the Association of American Geographers 95(3): 525-541.

Campbell, D., D. Lusch, T. Smucker, and E. Wangui. 2005. Connecting Social Science and Remote Sensing in the Analysis of Land Use Change in S.E. Kajiado District. Kenya. Human Ecology 33(6): 763 - 794.

Berry, L., J. Olson, and D. Campbell 2003. "Assessing the Extent, Cost and Impact of Land Degradation at the National Level: Findings and Lessons Learned from Seven Pilot Case Studies" The Global Mechanism of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and the World Bank. Available on http://www.gm-unccd.org/English/DOCS/Other.htm

Campbell, D. 2003. Et de l'autre côté de la frontière? In F. Bart, M.J. Mbonile, and F. Devenne (eds.). Le Kilimanjaro, Montagne, Mémoire, Modernité. Pessac: Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, pp. 325-337.

Campbell, D. 2001. Assessing human processes in society-environment interactions, In Jensen, M. E. and Bourgeron, P. S., (eds.). A Guidebook for Integrated Ecological Assessments. New York: Springer Verlag, pp. 416-435.

Campbell, D. H. Gichohi, A. Mwangi, and L. Chege. 2000. Land Use Conflict in S.E. Kajiado District, Kenya. Land Use Policy 17(4): 337-348.

Campbell, D. 1999. Response to Drought among Farmers and Herders in Southern Kajiado District, Kenya: A Comparison of 1972-1976 and 1994-1996. Human Ecology, 27(3): 377-416.

Campbell, D. 1998. Towards An Analytical Framework For Land Use Change. in L. Bergström and H. Kirschmann (eds.). Carbon and Nutrient Dynamics in Tropical Agro-Ecosystems. Wallingford, UK: CAB International, pp. 281-301.

Evered, K.T. and O. Turan. 2005. Jadidism in Southeastern Europe: Gaspirali among the Bulgarian Turks. Middle Eastern Studies 41(4): 481-502.

Evered, K.T. 2005. Regionalism in the Middle East and the Case of Turkey. The Geographical Review 95(3): 463-477.

Evered, K.T. 2006. Fostering Puerto Rico: America's Geopolitical and Environmental Legitimations for Territorial Expansion in the Caribbean. Historical Geography 34.

Simmons, C. S. (in press). Territorializing Land Conflict: Space, Place, and Contentious Politics in the Brazilian Amazon. Geojournal.

Simmons, C.S. 2004. The Political Economy of Land Conflict in the Eastern Brazilian Amazon. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 94 (1): 183-206.

Simmons, C.S., Perz, S., Pedlowski, M. A., and L. G. T. Silva. 2002. The Changing Dynamics of Land Conflict in the Brazilian Amazon: the Rural-Urban Complex and its Environmental Implications. Urban Ecosystems 6: 99-122.

Simmons, C. S., Walker, R. T., and C. Wood. 2002 Tree Planting by Small Producers in the Tropics: A Comparative Study of Brazil and Panama. AgroForestry Systems, 56: 89-105.

Simmons, C.S. 2002. The Local Articulation of Land Use Conflict: Economic Development, Environment, and Amerindian Rights. Professional Geographer, 54 (2), 241-258.

Walker, R.T. and Solecki, B. 2004. Theorizing Land Cover and Land Use Change: The Case of the Florida Everglades and its Degradation, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 94(2): 311-328.

Walker, R.T. 2003. Mapping Process to Pattern in the Landscape Change of the Amazonian Frontier. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 93(2): 376-398.

Walker, R.T. and Solecki, W.D. 1999. Managing Land Use and Land Cover Change: The New Jersey Pinelands Biosphere Reserve. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 89(2): 219-236.

WinklerPrins, A.M.G.A. and P.S. de Souza. 2005. Surviving the City: Urban Homegardens and the Economy of Affection in the Brazilian Amazon. Journal of Latin American Geography 4(1): 103-122.

WinklerPrins, A.M.G.A. and N. Barrera-Bassols. 2004. Latin American Ethnopedology: Past, Present, and Future. Agriculture and Human Values 21: 35-52.

Raffles, H. and A.M.G.A. WinklerPrins. 2003. Further Reflections on Amazonian Environmental History: Transformations of Rivers and Streams. Latin American Research Review 38(3): 165-187.

Murrieta, R.S.S. and A.M.G.A. WinklerPrins. 2003. Flowers of Water: Homegardens and Gender Roles in a Riverine Caboclo Community in the Lower Amazon, Brazil. Culture and Agriculture 25(1): 35-47.

WinklerPrins, A.M.G.A. 2002. Linking the Urban with the Rural: House-lot gardens in Santarém, Pará, Brazil. Urban Ecosystems 6(1/2): 43-65.

WinklerPrins, A.M.G.A. 2002. Recent Seasonal Floodplain-Upland Migration Along the Lower Amazon River The Geographical Review 92(3): 415-431.