Innovation with Spatial Impact: Sustainable Development of the Brazilian Cerrado

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hosono, Akio (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Hamaguchi, Nobuaki (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Bojanic, Alan (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Economic policy.; Development economics.; Agricultural economics.; Environmental economics.; Regional economics.; Spatial economics.; Economic Policy.; Development Economics.; Agricultural Economics.; Environmental Economics.; Regional/Spatial Science.

This book is unique and original, constituting a pioneering study in the use of spatial economics and related analytical approaches to Brazil's Cerrado agricultural development and the formation of agro-industrial value chains. This methodology is appropriate because Cerrado agriculture has bee...

Table of Contents:

• 1 The Spatial Economics of Agricultural Development and the Formation of Agro-Industrial Value Chains: The Brazilian Cerrado(Akio Hosono, Nobuaki Hamaguchi, and Alan Bojanic)
• 2 Economic and Social Impacts of Cerrado Agriculture: Transformation for Inclusive Growth through Clusters and Value Chains(Akio Hosono)
• 3 Spatial Diffusion of the PRODECER Effects: A Macro-Spatial Approach(Nobuaki Hamaguchi)
• 4 Development of the Cerrado Stimulated by the Value Chain of Soybeans(Tetsuo Mizobe)
• 5 Land Use Expansion in the Brazilian Cerrado(Edson Eyji Sano)
• 6 Population Growth and Urbanization in the Brazilian Cerrado(Bernardo Campolina)
• Index.