The Timber Trade in Southeastern Brazil, 19201960 Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Logging economies in Latin America have long supplied forest resources to international and domestic markets. One of Latin America's more significant timber regions supplied South America's largest industrial metropolis, So Paulo. However, relatively little is known about the historical geography of logging in Brazil, or elsewhere in Latin America, in part because of the bias of forest histories to the destruction, rather than utilisation, of forest resources. This study focuses on domestic demand for hardwood and its salient characteristics: transport, the distribution of sawmills, the use of contracts and dangerous working 2005 Society for Latin American Studies.

published proceedings

  • Bulletin of Latin American Research

author list (cited authors)

  • Brannstrom, C.

citation count

  • 1

complete list of authors

  • Brannstrom, Christian

publication date

  • July 2005

publisher